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FKIE_CVE-2025-68784

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-13 16:15 - Updated: 2026-01-14 16:26

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix a UAF problem in xattr repair The xchk_setup_xattr_buf function can allocate a new value buffer, which means that any reference to ab->value before the call could become a dangling pointer. Fix this by moving an assignment to after the buffer setup.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e2d3aa19c7962b9474b22893160cb460494c45f
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5990fd756943836978ad184aac980e2b36ab7e01
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d29ed9ff972afe17c215cab171761d7a15d7063f

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "id": "CVE-2025-68784",
  "lastModified": "2026-01-14T16:26:00.933",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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CVE-2025-68784 (GCVE-0-2025-68784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:28 – Updated: 2026-01-13 15:28

Title

xfs: fix a UAF problem in xattr repair

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e2d3aa19c7962b94…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d29ed9ff972afe17c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5990fd75694383697…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < 1e2d3aa19c7962b9474b22893160cb460494c45f (git)
Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < d29ed9ff972afe17c215cab171761d7a15d7063f (git)
Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < 5990fd756943836978ad184aac980e2b36ab7e01 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2025-68784

CVE-2025-68784 (GCVE-0-2025-68784)

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