5.7

CVE-2025-68772: linux

CVSS: 5.7v4.0MediumDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68772DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68772
Published 13-01-2026Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68772 is a medium (CVSS 5.7) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
23/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.7/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (OSV · Ubuntu), selected by version preference
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 23 · Related 20
DLA-4476-1DSA-6126-1DSA-6127-1MGASA-2026-0017MGASA-2026-0018USN-8177-1

Timeline

  1. 13-01-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid updating compression context during writeback Bai, Shuangpeng <sjb7183@psu.edu> reported a bug as below: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11441 Comm: syz.0.46 Not tainted 6.17.0 #1 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready+0x106/0x550 fs/f2fs/compress.c:857 Call Trace: <TASK> f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3078 [inline] __f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3290 [inline] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1c19/0x3600 fs/f2fs/data.c:3317 do_writepages+0x38e/0x640 mm/page-writeback.c:2634 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc mm/filemap.c:386 [inline] __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:419 [inline] file_write_and_wait_range+0x2ba/0x3e0 mm/filemap.c:794 f2fs_do_sync_file+0x6e6/0x1b00 fs/f2fs/file.c:294 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:3043 [inline] f2fs_file_write_iter+0x76e/0x2700 fs/f2fs/file.c:5259 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x7e9/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x19d/0x2d0 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf7/0x470 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The bug was triggered w/ below race condition: fsync setattr ioctl - f2fs_do_sync_file - file_write_and_wait_range - f2fs_write_cache_pages : inode is non-compressed : cc.cluster_size = F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 0 - tag_pages_for_writeback - f2fs_setattr - truncate_setsize - f2fs_truncate - f2fs_fileattr_set - f2fs_setflags_common - set_compress_context : F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 4 : set_inode_flag(inode, FI_COMPRESSED_FILE) - f2fs_compressed_file : return true - f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready : "pgidx % cc->cluster_size" trigger dividing 0 issue Let's change as below to fix this issue: - introduce a new atomic type variable .writeback in structure f2fs_inode_info to track the number of threads which calling f2fs_write_cache_pages(). - use .i_sem lock to protect .writeback update. - check .writeback before update compression context in f2fs_setflags_common() to avoid race w/ ->writepages.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

9%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.20%

Known exploited

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Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu145 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-110.110 | < 6.17.0-22.22
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1052.55 | < 6.17.0-1012.12
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.162-1 | < 6.12.69-1 | < 6.18.3-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3, < ad26bfbc085c939b5dca77ff8c14798c06d151c4 | ≥ 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3, < bcd0086ee5a2e88c1224ff2ec1e4a43c83efe5a0 | ≥ 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3, < 0bf1a02494c7eb5bd43445de4c83c8592e02c4bf | ≥ 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3, < 0df713a9c082a474c8b0bcf670edc8e98461d5a0 | ≥ 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3, < 10b591e7fb7cdc8c1e53e9c000dc0ef7069aaa76 | 5.6

3 vendors · 147 products

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