CVE-2025-68293 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.2HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 6
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/huge_memory: fix NULL pointer deference when splitting folio
Commit c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages")
introduced an early check on the folio's order via mapping->flags before
proceeding with the split work.
This check introduced a bug: for shmem folios in the swap cache and
truncated folios, the mapping pointer can be NULL. Accessing
mapping->flags in this state leads directly to a NULL poi…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 — 592db83615a9f0164472ec789c2ed34ad35f732f+3