Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2025-68794

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iomap: adjust read range correctly for non-block-aligned positions iomap_adjust_read_range() assumes that the position and length passed in are block-aligned. This is not always the case however, as shown in the syzbot generated case for erofs. This causes too many bytes to be skipped for uptodate blocks, which results in returning the incorrect position and length to read in. If all the blocks are uptodate, this underflows length and returns a position beyond the folio. Fix the calculation to also take into account the block offset when calculating how many bytes can be skipped for uptodate blocks.

EPSS: 0.002 (6.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions 9dc55f1389f9569acf9659e58dd836a9c70df217, 4.19, 0

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68794?
CVE-2025-68794 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-68794?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.