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CVE-2025-68299— afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key

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Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于匿名密钥分配延迟，可能导致空指针取消引用。

AI Predicted 5.5 Difficulty: Moderate EPSS 0.26% · P17

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

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Affected Version Matrix 4

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux fa4ccdccf1489a6dac4369a8c69f11b455b3355c< bd18d2cbc9377c6b270c0b7ea44b0e6ed1d99c07 affected
7e33b15d5a6578a99ebf189cea34983270ae92dd< 5613bde937dfac6725e9c3fc766b9d6b8481e55b affected
330e2c514823008b22e6afd2055715bc46dd8d55< d27c71257825dced46104eefe42e4d9964bd032e affected
6.17.9< 6.17.11 affected
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Vulnerability Title
afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key The allocation of a cell's anonymous key is done in a background thread along with other cell setup such as doing a DNS upcall. In the reported bug, this is triggered by afs_parse_source() parsing the device name given to mount() and calling afs_lookup_cell() with the name of the cell. The normal key lookup then tries to use the key description on the anonymous authentication key as the reference for request_key() - but it may not yet be set and so an oops can happen. This has been made more likely to happen by the fix for dynamic lookup failure. Fix this by firstly allocating a reference name and attaching it to the afs_cell record when the record is created. It can share the memory allocation with the cell name (unfortunately it can't just overlap the cell name by prepending it with "afs@" as the cell name already has a '.' prepended for other purposes). This reference name is then passed to request_key(). Secondly, the anon key is now allocated on demand at the point a key is requested in afs_request_key() if it is not already allocated. A mutex is used to prevent multiple allocation for a cell. Thirdly, make afs_request_key_rcu() return NULL if the anonymous key isn't yet allocated (if we need it) and then the caller can return -ECHILD to drop out of RCU-mode and afs_request_key() can be called. Note that the anonymous key is kind of necessary to make the key lookup cache work as that doesn't currently cache a negative lookup, but it's probably worth some investigation to see if NULL can be used instead.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
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Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于匿名密钥分配延迟，可能导致空指针取消引用。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Linux Linux fa4ccdccf1489a6dac4369a8c69f11b455b3355c ~ bd18d2cbc9377c6b270c0b7ea44b0e6ed1d99c07 -
Linux Linux 6.17.9 ~ 6.17.11 -

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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2025-68299 (1)

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Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-12-16 · 156 CVEs total

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CVE-2025-68301 9.8 CRITICAL net: atlantic: fix fragment overflow handling in RX path
CVE-2025-40350 9.8 CRITICAL net/mlx5e: RX, Fix generating skb from non-linear xdp_buff for striding RQ
CVE-2025-68284 9.8 CRITICAL libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds writes in handle_auth_session_key()
CVE-2025-68285 9.8 CRITICAL libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()
CVE-2025-68263 9.8 CRITICAL ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_request
CVE-2025-68315 9.8 CRITICAL f2fs: fix to detect potential corrupted nid in free_nid_list
CVE-2025-68226 8.8 HIGH smb: client: fix incomplete backport in cfids_invalidation_worker()
CVE-2025-68304 8.8 HIGH Bluetooth: hci_core: lookup hci_conn on RX path on protocol side
CVE-2025-68255 8.8 HIGH staging: rtl8723bs: fix stack buffer overflow in OnAssocReq IE parsing
CVE-2025-68256 8.8 HIGH staging: rtl8723bs: fix out-of-bounds read in rtw_get_ie() parser
CVE-2025-40362 8.8 HIGH ceph: fix multifs mds auth caps issue
CVE-2025-68314 8.8 HIGH drm/msm: make sure last_fence is always updated
CVE-2025-68250 8.2 HIGH hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
CVE-2025-68175 7.8 HIGH media: nxp: imx8-isi: Fix streaming cleanup on release
CVE-2025-68171 7.8 HIGH x86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery
CVE-2025-68179 7.8 HIGH s390: Disable ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP
CVE-2025-68260 7.8 HIGH rust_binder: fix race condition on death_list
CVE-2025-68303 7.8 HIGH platform/x86: intel: punit_ipc: fix memory corruption
CVE-2025-68234 7.8 HIGH io_uring/cmd_net: fix wrong argument types for skb_queue_splice()

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