CVE-2025-68368

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68368DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68368
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 15
Deferred
Published: 24 Dec 2025, 10:32
Last modified:11 May 2026, 21:51

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
0.17% LOW
0% probability +0.14%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Dec 2025, 10:32
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
11 May 2026, 21:51
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md: init bioset in mddev_init IO operations may be needed before md_run(), such as updating metadata after writing sysfs. Without bioset, this triggers a NULL pointer dereference as below: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 Call Trace: md_update_sb+0x658/0xe00 new_level_store+0xc5/0x120 md_attr_store+0xc9/0x1e0 sysfs_kf_write+0x6f/0xa0 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x2a0 vfs_write+0x1fc/0x5a0 ksys_write+0x79/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x2818/0x2880 do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 Reproducer ``` mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[cd] echo inactive > /sys/block/md0/md/array_state echo 10 > /sys/block/md0/md/new_level ``` mddev_init() can only be called once per mddev, no need to test if bioset has been initialized anymore.

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.17%• Percentile: 7%

Affected Systems

  • debian•linux

    all | < 6.18.3-1

  • ubuntu•linux

    < 6.17.0-22.22

  • ubuntu•linux-allwinner-5.19

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws

    < 6.17.0-1012.12

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.0

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.13

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.19

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.3

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-5.8

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-6.14

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-6.17

    < 6.17.0-1012.12~24.04.1

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-6.2

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-aws-6.5

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure

    all | < 6.17.0-1013.13

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-5.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-5.13

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-5.19

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-5.3

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-5.8

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.14

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.17

    < 6.17.0-1013.13~24.04.1

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.2

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-6.5

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-edge

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde

    all | all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-5.19

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.14

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-fde-6.2

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-azure-nvidia-6.14

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-bluefield

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp

    all | < 6.17.0-1012.12

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.13

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.19

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.3

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-5.8

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.11

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.14

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.17

    < 6.17.0-1012.12~24.04.1

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.2

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gcp-6.5

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gke

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gke-4.15

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gke-5.15

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gke-5.4

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gkeop

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gkeop-5.15

    all

  • ubuntu•linux-gkeop-5.4

    all

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References (11)