CVE-2025-68784

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/01/2026
Last modified:
14/01/2026

Description

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

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