CVE-2025-68796: linux

CVSS: UnknownDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68796DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68796
Published 13-01-2026Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68796 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.21%
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 34 · Related 30
DLA-4475-1DLA-4476-1DSA-6126-1DSA-6127-1MGASA-2026-0017MGASA-2026-0018

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 zero-sized extent in extent cache As syzbot reported: F2FS-fs (loop0): __update_extent_tree_range: extent len is zero, type: 0, extent [0, 0, 0], age [0, 0] ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5336 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__update_extent_tree_range+0x13bc/0x1500 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678 Call Trace: <TASK> f2fs_update_read_extent_cache_range+0x192/0x3e0 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1085 f2fs_do_zero_range fs/f2fs/file.c:1657 [inline] f2fs_zero_range+0x10c1/0x1580 fs/f2fs/file.c:1737 f2fs_fallocate+0x583/0x990 fs/f2fs/file.c:2030 vfs_fallocate+0x669/0x7e0 fs/open.c:342 ioctl_preallocate fs/ioctl.c:289 [inline] file_ioctl+0x611/0x780 fs/ioctl.c:-1 do_vfs_ioctl+0xb33/0x1430 fs/ioctl.c:576 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:595 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0x82/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f07bc58eec9 In error path of f2fs_zero_range(), it may add a zero-sized extent into extent cache, it should be avoided.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

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

Ubuntu157 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-173.183 | < 6.8.0-110.110 | < 6.17.0-22.22
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1103.110 | < 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≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < 9c07bd262c13ca922adad6e7613d48505f97f548 | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < 72c58a82e6fb7b327e8701f5786c70c3edc56188 | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < e50b81c50fcbe63f50405bb40f262162ff32af88 | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < efe3371001f50a2d6f746b50bdc6f9f26b2089ec | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < 4f244c64efe628d277b916f47071adf480eb8646 | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < bac23833220a1f8fe8dfab7e16efa20ff64d7589 | ≥ 6e9619499f53b22ead972e476c0e8341c997d929, < 7c37c79510329cd951a4dedf3f7bf7e2b18dccec | 4.7

3 vendors · 159 products

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