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CVE-2025-68784

xfs: fix a UAF problem in xattr repair PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix a UAF problem in xattr repair The xchk_setup_xattr_buf function can allocate a new value buffer, which means that any reference to ab->value before the call could become a dangling pointer. Fix this by moving an assignment to after the buffer setup.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad before 1e2d3aa19c7962b9474b22893160cb460494c45f; affected e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad before d29ed9ff972afe17c215cab171761d7a15d7063f; affected e47dcf113ae348678143cc935a1183059c02c9ad before 5990fd756943836978ad184aac980e2b36ab7e01
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.10; unaffected 0 before 6.10; unaffected 6.12.64 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.3 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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