Answer in brief
CVE-2026-68147 records a High severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices(). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.8. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8 | 4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8, 97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244, 81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86, bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749, 6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8 |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | 6.1 | Not reported |
| Linux/Linuxgeneric | >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749 || >=22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 <6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8 | bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0, 4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8, 97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244, 81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86, bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749, 6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8 |
Published upstream
Aug 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Aug 19, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 10, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices() When a blk_crypto_key starts being used or is evicted, fs/crypto/ calls fscrypt_get_devices() to get the filesystem's list of block devices, then iterates over them and calls blk_crypto_config_supported(), blk_crypto_start_using_key(), or blk_crypto_evict_key() on each one. Currently, the block device pointers are placed in a dynamically allocated array. This dynamic allocation is problematic because: - It can fail, especially at the fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() call site when it's invoked for inode eviction under direct reclaim. - fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() doesn't handle the failure. It just zeroizes and frees the blk_crypto_key without calling blk_crypto_evict_key(). That causes a use-after-free. For now, let's fix this in the straightforward and easily-backportable way by switching to an on-stack array. Currently the fscrypt multi-device functionality is used only by f2fs, which has a hardcoded limit of 8 block devices. An on-stack array works fine for that. (Of course, this solution won't scale up to large number of block devices. For that we'd need a different solution, like moving the block device iteration into the filesystem. Or in the case of btrfs, which will only support blk-crypto-fallback, we should make it just call blk-crypto-fallback directly, so the block devices won't be needed.)
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