CVE-2025-68185Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux

Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV3.2
No vector
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.07%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 13

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing Theoretically it's an oopsable race, but I don't believe one can manage to hit it on real hardware; might become doable on a KVM, but it still won't be easy to attack. Anyway, it's easy to deal with - since xdr_encode_hyper() is just a call of put_unaligned_be64(), we can put that under ->d_lock and be done with that.

Affected Packages6 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel2.6.125.4.302+6
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.247-1+3
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-173.183+2
CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac26025f641a0e30afdc5aa62017397b1860ad9f677+8
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.159-1 (bookworm)

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🕵️Threat Intelligence

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