CVE-2025-68821 — Deadlock in Linux
Severity
6.4MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock
Commit e26ee4efbc79 ("fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is
needed") skips allocating ff->release_args if the server does not
implement open. However in doing so, fuse_prepare_release() now skips
grabbing the reference on the inode, which makes it possible for an
inode to be evicted from the dcache while there are inflight readahead
requests. This causes a deadlock if the serve…
Affected Packages16 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa39f70d63f4373a598820d9491719e44cd60afe9 — cbbf3f1bb9f834bb2acbb61ddca74363456e19cd+6
🔴Vulnerability Details
9OSV▶
linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 vulnerabilities↗2026-03-17
OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-xilin↗2026-03-16