CVE-2025-38697

Name	CVE-2025-38697
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: upper bound check of tree index in dbAllocAG When computing the tree index in dbAllocAG, we never check if we are out of bounds realative to the size of the stree. This could happen in a scenario where the filesystem metadata are corrupted.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	vulnerable
	bookworm (security)	6.1.147-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.43-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.41-1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	6.16.7-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	trixie	6.12.43-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.16.3-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/c214006856ff52a8ff17ed8da52d50601d54f9ce (6.17-rc1)