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CVE-2025-68299

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 authentica
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:8301846ac56f926c48722c87f06cf1f652080f9f2f9a85de2aba85e3d66ac2d9
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/afs/cell.c","fs/afs/internal.h","fs/afs/security.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"bd18d2cbc9377c6b270c0b7ea44b0e6ed1d99c07","status":"affected","version":"fa4ccdccf1489a6dac4369a8c69f11b455b3355c","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"5613bde937dfac6725e9c3fc766b9d6b8481e55b","status":"affected","version":"7e33b15d5a6578a99ebf189cea34983270ae92dd","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"d27c71257825dced46104eefe42e4d9964bd032e","status":"affected","ve…

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

2 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/afs/cell.c","fs/afs/internal.h","fs/afs/security.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"6.17.11","status":"affected","version":"6.17.9","versionType":"semver"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Linux","programFiles":["fs/afs/cell.c","fs/afs/internal.h","fs/afs/security.c"],"repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","vendor":"Linux","versions":[{"lessThan":"bd18d2cbc9377c6b270c0b7ea44b0e6ed1d99c07","status":"affected","version":"fa4ccdccf1489a6dac4369a8c69f11b455b3355c","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"5613bde937dfac6725e9c3fc766b9d6b8481e55b","status":"affected","version":"7e33b15d5a6578a99ebf189cea34983270ae92dd","versionType":"git"},{"lessThan":"d27c71257825dced46104eefe42e4d9964bd032e","status":"affected","ve…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Source references

3 source assertions
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5613bde937dfac6725e9c3fc766b9d6b8481e55b"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd18d2cbc9377c6b270c0b7ea44b0e6ed1d99c07"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/references/0
{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d27c71257825dced46104eefe42e4d9964bd032e"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:f4fcc60b4c43456319f047877d28c3e411f3c900b3869656c29c222f71bbf128 · sha256:ca4e480a49d29214… · /containers/cna/references/2

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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