CVE-2025-68349 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV7.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSv4/pNFS: Clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT in pnfs_mark_layout_stateid_invalid
Fixes a crash when layout is null during this call stack:
write_inode
-> nfs4_write_inode
-> pnfs_layoutcommit_inode
pnfs_set_layoutcommit relies on the lseg refcount to keep the layout
around. Need to clear NFS_INO_LAYOUTCOMMIT otherwise we might attempt
to reference a null layout.