CVE-2025-68168 — Linux vulnerability
50 documents8 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 79.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in transaction manager
The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly
initializing TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when
txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems.
When a filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to
indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0) still gets called and
tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this
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Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux2a8807f9f511c64de0c7cc9900a1683e3d72a3e5 — d6af7fce2e162ac68e85d3a11eb6ac8c35b24b64+11