CVE-2025-68767

Updated on 13 Jan 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

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Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfsplus: Verify inode mode when loading from disk syzbot is reporting that S_IFMT bits of inode->i_mode can become bogus when the S_IFMT bits of the 16bits “mode” field loaded from disk are corrupted. According to [1], the permissions field was treated as reserved in Mac OS 8 and 9. According to [2], the reserved field was explicitly initialized with 0, and that field must remain 0 as long as reserved. Therefore, when the “mode” field is not 0 (i.e. no longer reserved), the file must be S_IFDIR if dir == 1, and the file must be one of S_IFREG/S_IFLNK/S_IFCHR/ S_IFBLK/S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK if dir == 0.

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KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 11 Will Not Fix
Debian 11 cloud Will Not Fix
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned