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CVE-2025-68251 json

erofs: avoid infinite loops due to corrupted subpage compact indexes

published 2025-12-16 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-21 19 d ago also EUVD-2025-203645

cvss
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not scored
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

erofs: avoid infinite loops due to corrupted subpage compact indexes

Robert reported an infinite loop observed by two crafted images.

The root cause is that `clusterofs` can be larger than `lclustersize` for !NONHEAD `lclusters` in corrupted subpage compact indexes, e.g.:

blocksize = lclustersize = 512 lcn = 6 clusterofs = 515

Move the corresponding check for full compress indexes to `z_erofs_load_lcluster_from_disk()` to also cover subpage compact compress indexes.

It also fixes the position of `m->type >= Z_EROFS_LCLUSTER_TYPE_MAX` check, since it should be placed right after `z_erofs_load_{compact,full}_lcluster()`.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.6.160, 6.8, 6.12.91, 6.17.6, 6.18
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.94-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68251

  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1008.8
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1008.8
  • linux-riscv Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14.1
  • linux-oracle Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1007.7~24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68251

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68251 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: Linux kernel (erofs): Denial of Service via corrupted subpage compact indexes

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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