{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68168 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-68168 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. 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-2026-68168 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-68168 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 10 Aug 2026. 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-2026-68168 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-2026-68168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68168/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-68168","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68168/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-68168","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-68168","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68168","GHSA-jwjj-cxp5-4ffw","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-68168"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel AFS filesystem allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"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\nafs: Fix afs_edit_dir_remove() to get, not find, block 0\n\nFix afs_edit_dir_remove() to use afs_dir_get_block() to get block 0 rather\nthan afs_dir_find_block() as the latter caches the found block in the\nafs_dir_iter and may[*] switch out the page it's on if another\nafs_dir_find_block() is done.  This parallels what afs_edit_dir_add() does.\n\n[*] There's more than one block per page.","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":"afs: Fix afs_edit_dir_remove() to get, not find, block 0","id":"CVE-2026-68168","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"mptcp: pm: userspace: fix use-after-free in get_local_id","id":"CVE-2026-68169"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"btrfs: do not try compression for data reloc inodes","id":"CVE-2026-68167"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-10","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":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel AFS filesystem allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-68168/"}