DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40167
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination syzbot reported a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() when opening a verity file on a corrupted ext4 filesystem mounted without a journal. The issue is that the filesystem has an inode with both the INLINE_DATA and EXTENTS flags set: EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_cache_extents:545: inode #15: comm syz.0.17: corrupted extent tree: lblk 0 < prev 66 Investigation revealed that the inode has both flags set: DEBUG: inode 15 - flag=1, i_inline_off=164, has_inline=1, extents_flag=1 This is an invalid combination since an inode should have either: - INLINE_DATA: data stored directly in the inode - EXTENTS: data stored in extent-mapped blocks Having both flags causes ext4_has_inline_data() to return true, skipping extent tree validation in __ext4_iget(). The unvalidated out-of-order extents then trigger a BUG_ON in ext4_es_cache_extent() due to integer underflow when calculating hole sizes. Fix this by detecting this invalid flag combination early in ext4_iget() and rejecting the corrupted inode.
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | linux | 5.10.179-2, 5.10.221-1, 5.10.178-3 |
| Debian:13 | linux | 6.12.48-1, 6.12.57-1, 6.12.41-1 |
| Debian:11 | linux-6.1 | 6.1.148-1, 6.1.106-3~deb11u3, 6.1.140-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | 6.14.3-1, 6.12.38-1, 6.12.43-1 |
| Debian:12 | linux | 6.1.99-1, *, 6.1.99-1 |
Exploit Intelligence
- 4081.3.7.yml (github-poc)
Timeline
- Nov 12, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated