CVE-2025-68769 json
f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_recover_fsync_data()
published 2026-01-13 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-2338
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_recover_fsync_data()
With below scripts, it will trigger panic in f2fs:
mkfs.f2fs -f /dev/vdd mount /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs touch /mnt/f2fs/foo sync echo 111 >> /mnt/f2fs/foo f2fs_io fsync /mnt/f2fs/foo f2fs_io shutdown 2 /mnt/f2fs umount /mnt/f2fs mount -o ro,norecovery /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs or mount -o ro,disable_roll_forward /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs
F2FS-fs (vdd): f2fs_recover_fsync_data: recovery fsync data, check_only: 0 F2FS-fs (vdd): Mounted with checkpoint version = 7f5c361f F2FS-fs (vdd): Stopped filesystem due to reason: 0 F2FS-fs (vdd): f2fs_recover_fsync_data: recovery fsync data, check_only: 1 Filesystem f2fs get_tree() didn't set fc->root, returned 1 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at fs/super.c:1761! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 722 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2+ #721 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:vfs_get_tree.cold+0x18/0x1a Call Trace: <TASK> fc_mount+0x13/0xa0 path_mount+0x34e/0xc50 __x64_sys_mount+0x121/0x150 do_syscall_64+0x84/0x800 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa6cc126cfe
The root cause is we missed to handle error number returned from f2fs_recover_fsync_data() when mounting image w/ ro,norecovery or ro,disable_roll_forward mount option, result in returning a positive error number to vfs_get_tree(), fix it.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 4.5, 5.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.64, 6.18.3, 6.19
- linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.69-1
- linux Debian 14 6.18.3-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68769
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-22.22
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.110
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1012.12
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.112
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.57
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68769
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6ac31abd30e9fd2ef5f0819ce7f3f932be3b725 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de4977a1eeafe9d77701e3c031a1bcdba389243 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bc246018aaa3b46a7710428d0a2196c229f9d49 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4c67d96f92eefcfa5596a08f069e77b743c5865 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/473550e715654ad7612aa490d583cb7c25fe2ff3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4560db9678a2c5952b6205fbca468c6805c2ba2a commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/01fba45deaddcce0d0b01c411435d1acf6feab7b commit
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-2025-68769 updated
kernel: f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_recover_fsync_data()
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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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot 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 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e6ac31abd30e9fd2ef5f0819ce7f3f932be3b725
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/0de4977a1eeafe9d77701e3c031a1bcdba389243
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9bc246018aaa3b46a7710428d0a2196c229f9d49
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a4c67d96f92eefcfa5596a08f069e77b743c5865
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/473550e715654ad7612aa490d583cb7c25fe2ff3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4560db9678a2c5952b6205fbca468c6805c2ba2a
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/01fba45deaddcce0d0b01c411435d1acf6feab7b
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-68769
- NVD CVE-2025-68769
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