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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:28 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:53
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Title
xfs: fix a UAF problem in xattr repair
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < 1e2d3aa19c7962b9474b22893160cb460494c45f (git)
Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < d29ed9ff972afe17c215cab171761d7a15d7063f (git)
Affected: e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad , < 5990fd756943836978ad184aac980e2b36ab7e01 (git)
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Linux 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 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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