{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68297 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68297 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68297 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68297 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68297 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68297/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68297/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68297","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68297/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68297","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-68297","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68297","GHSA-xqfj-57hg-6v8m","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-68297","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-68297","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68297","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68297"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel Ceph","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash in the Ceph filesystem driver when reading encrypted directories, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nceph: fix crash in process_v2_sparse_read() for encrypted directories\n\nThe crash in process_v2_sparse_read() for fscrypt-encrypted directories\nhas been reported. Issue takes place for Ceph msgr2 protocol in secure\nmode. It can be reproduced by the steps:\n\nsudo mount -t ceph :/ /mnt/cephfs/ -o name=admin,fs=cephfs,ms_mode=secure\n\n(1) mkdir /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3\n(2) cp area_decrypted.tar /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3\n(3) fscrypt encrypt --source=raw_key --key=./my.key /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3\n(4) fscrypt lock /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3\n(5) fscrypt unlock --key=my.key /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3\n(6) cat /mnt/cephfs/fscrypt-test-3/area_decrypted.tar\n(7) Issue has been triggered\n\n[  408.072247] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[  408.072251] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 392 at net/ceph/messenger_v2.c:865\nceph_con_v2_try_read+0x4b39/0x72f0\n[  408.072267] Modules linked in: intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common\nintel_uncore_frequency_common intel_pmc_core pmt_telemetry pmt_discovery\npmt_class intel_pmc_ssram_telemetry intel_vsec kvm_intel joydev kvm irqbypass\npolyval_clmulni ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel rapl input_leds psmouse\nserio_raw i2c_piix4 vga16fb bochs vgastate i2c_smbus floppy mac_hid qemu_fw_cfg\npata_acpi sch_fq_codel rbd msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore\n[  408.072304] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 392 Comm: kworker/1:3 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7+\n[  408.072307] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\n1.17.0-5.fc42 04/01/2014\n[  408.072310] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn\n[  408.072314] RIP: 0010:ceph_con_v2_try_read+0x4b39/0x72f0\n[  408.072317] Code: c7 c1 20 f0 d4 ae 50 31 d2 48 c7 c6 60 27 d5 ae 48 c7 c7 f8\n8e 6f b0 68 60 38 d5 ae e8 00 47 61 fe 48 83 c4 18 e9 ac fc ff ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 06\nfe ff ff 4c 8b 9d 98 fd ff ff 0f 84 64 e7 ff ff 89 85\n[  408.072319] RSP: 0018:ffff88811c3e7a30 EFLAGS: 00010246\n[  408.072322] RAX: ffffed1024874c6f RBX: ffffea00042c2b40 RCX: 0000000000000f38\n[  408.072324] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000\n[  408.072325] RBP: ffff88811c3e7ca8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000000000c8\n[  408.072326] R10: 00000000000000c8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000c8\n[  408.072327] R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8881243a6030 R15: 0000000000003000\n[  408.072329] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88823eadf000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\n[  408.072331] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[  408.072332] CR2: 000000c0003c6000 CR3: 000000010c106005 CR4: 0000000000772ef0\n[  408.072336] PKRU: 55555554\n[  408.072337] Call Trace:\n[  408.072338]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  408.072340]  ? sched_clock_noinstr+0x9/0x10\n[  408.072344]  ? __pfx_ceph_con_v2_try_read+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072347]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0xe/0x40\n[  408.072349]  ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x15d/0x830\n[  408.072353]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n[  408.072357]  ? mutex_lock+0x84/0xe0\n[  408.072359]  ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072361]  ceph_con_workfn+0x27e/0x10e0\n[  408.072364]  ? metric_delayed_work+0x311/0x2c50\n[  408.072367]  process_one_work+0x611/0xe20\n[  408.072371]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n[  408.072373]  worker_thread+0x7e3/0x1580\n[  408.072375]  ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072378]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072381]  kthread+0x381/0x7a0\n[  408.072383]  ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072385]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072387]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n[  408.072389]  ? recalc_sigpending+0x160/0x220\n[  408.072392]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xe/0x50\n[  408.072394]  ? calculate_sigpending+0x78/0xb0\n[  408.072395]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072397]  ret_from_fork+0x2b6/0x380\n[  408.072400]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[  408.072402]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[  408.072406]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n[  408.072407] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n[  408.072418] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical\naddress 0xdffffc00000000\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ceph: fix crash in process_v2_sparse_read() for encrypted directories","id":"CVE-2025-68297","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Bluetooth: btusb: mediatek: Avoid btusb_mtk_claim_iso_intf() NULL deref","id":"CVE-2025-68298"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup","id":"CVE-2025-68296"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel crash in the Ceph filesystem driver when reading encrypted directories, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68297/"}