CVE-2025-68772: f2fs: fix to avoid updating compression context during writeback
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20% (FIRST EPSS).
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 0bf1a02494c7eb5bd43445de4c83c8592e02c4bf, 0df713a9c082a474c8b0bcf670edc8e98461d5a0, 10b591e7fb7cdc8c1e53e9c000dc0ef7069aaa76; azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.121.1-1.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 0bf1a02494c7eb5bd43445de4c83c8592e02c4bf, 0df713a9c082a474c8b0bcf670edc8e98461d5a0, 10b591e7fb7cdc8c1e53e9c000dc0ef7069aaa76; azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.121.1-1 or later.
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Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid updating compression context during writeback Bai, Shuangpeng <sjb7183@psu.edu> reported a bug as below: Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11441 Comm: syz.0.46 Not tainted 6.17.0 #1 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready+0x106/0x550 fs/f2fs/compress.c:857 Call Trace: <TASK> f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3078 [inline] __f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3290 [inline] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1c19/0x3600 fs/f2fs/data.c:3317 do_writepages+0x38e/0x640 mm/page-writeback.c:2634 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc mm/filemap.c:386 [inline] __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:419 [inline] file_write_and_wait_range+0x2ba/0x3e0 mm/filemap.c:794 f2fs_do_sync_file+0x6e6/0x1b00 fs/f2fs/file.c:294 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:3043 [inline] f2fs_file_write_iter+0x76e/0x2700 fs/f2fs/file.c:5259 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x7e9/0xe00 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x19d/0x2d0 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xf7/0x470 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f The bug was triggered w/ below race condition: fsync setattr ioctl - f2fs_do_sync_file - file_write_and_wait_range - f2fs_write_cache_pages : inode is non-compressed : cc.cluster_size = F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 0 - tag_pages_for_writeback - f2fs_setattr - truncate_setsize - f2fs_truncate - f2fs_fileattr_set - f2fs_setflags_common - set_compress_context : F2FS_I(inode)->i_cluster_size = 4 : set_inode_flag(inode, FI_COMPRESSED_FILE) - f2fs_compressed_file : return true - f2fs_all_cluster_page_ready : "pgidx % cc->cluster_size" trigger dividing 0 issue Let's change as below to fix this issue: - introduce a new atomic type variable .writeback in structure f2fs_inode_info to track the number of threads which calling f2fs_write_cache_pages(). - use .i_sem lock to protect .writeback update. - check .writeback before update compression context in f2fs_setflags_common() to avoid race w/ ->writepages.
- Published
- Jan 13, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 10th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
0
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Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 0 / 40 · —
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
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Linux Linux
- 5.6affected
- 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and later · before ad26bfbc085c939b5dca77ff8c14798c06d151c4affected · git
- 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and later · before bcd0086ee5a2e88c1224ff2ec1e4a43c83efe5a0affected · git
- 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and later · before 0bf1a02494c7eb5bd43445de4c83c8592e02c4bfaffected · git
- 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and later · before 0df713a9c082a474c8b0bcf670edc8e98461d5a0affected · git
- 4c8ff7095bef64fc47e996a938f7d57f9e077da3 and later · before 10b591e7fb7cdc8c1e53e9c000dc0ef7069aaa76affected · git
- before 5.6not affected · semver
- 6.1.160 and later · up to and including 6.1.*not affected · semver
- 6.6.120 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
- 6.12.64 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | linux | before 6.1.162-1 | 6.1.162-1 |
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.69-1 | 6.12.69-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 6.18.3-1 | 6.18.3-1 |
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-68769Jan 13, 2026 · f2fs: fix return value of f2fs_recover_fsync_data()0Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-68771Jan 13, 2026 · ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain0Monitor
- Later →CVE-2025-68774Jan 13, 2026 · hfsplus: fix missing hfs_bnode_get() in __hfs_bnode_create30Monitor
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| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 0bf1a02494c7eb5bd43445de4c83c8592e02c4bf | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 0df713a9c082a474c8b0bcf670edc8e98461d5a0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 10b591e7fb7cdc8c1e53e9c000dc0ef7069aaa76 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | ad26bfbc085c939b5dca77ff8c14798c06d151c4 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | bcd0086ee5a2e88c1224ff2ec1e4a43c83efe5a0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0 | 6.6.121.1-1 · CBL-Mariner Releases | Microsoft (MSRC) |
| debian:linux | 6.1.162-1 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
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