CVE-2025-68351 (GCVE-0-2025-68351)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:32 – Updated: 2026-05-27 09:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
exfat: fix refcount leak in exfat_find
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exfat: fix refcount leak in exfat_find
Fix refcount leaks in `exfat_find` related to `exfat_get_dentry_set`.
Function `exfat_get_dentry_set` would increase the reference counter of
`es->bh` on success. Therefore, `exfat_put_dentry_set` must be called
after `exfat_get_dentry_set` to ensure refcount consistency. This patch
relocate two checks to avoid possible leaks.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
92075758782c5edb4c67d0da9e47586a624c22f7 , < fc9ce762525e73438d31b613f18bca92a4d3d578
(git)
Affected: 13940cef95491472760ca261b6713692ece9b946 , < d009ff8959d28d2a33aeb96a5f7e7161c421d78f (git) Affected: 13940cef95491472760ca261b6713692ece9b946 , < 9aee8de970f18c2aaaa348e3de86c38e2d956c1d (git) Affected: 0c8a1d2afd0dce0ea9257ab8c2271d8db6cb575d (git) Affected: 6c627bcc1896ba62ec793d0c00da74f3c93ce3ad (git) Affected: 6.12.23 , < 6.12.68 (semver) Affected: 6.13.11 , < 6.14 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.68 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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