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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68183" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:43:01.178Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:47.257Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68183" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68183.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68183" title: "ima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nima: don't clear IMA_DIGSIG flag when setting or removing non-IMA xattr\n\nCurrently when both IMA and EVM are in fix mode, the IMA signature will\nbe reset to IMA hash if a program first stores IMA signature in\nsecurity.ima and then writes/removes some other security xattr for the\nfile.\n\nFor example, on Fedora, after booting the kernel with \"ima_appraise=fix\nevm=fix ima_policy=appraise_tcb\" and installing rpm-plugin-ima,\ninstalling/reinstalling a package will not make good reference IMA\nsignature generated. Instead IMA hash is generated,\n\n # getfattr -m - -d -e hex /usr/bin/bash\n # file: usr/bin/bash\n security.ima=0x0404...\n\nThis happens because when setting security.selinux, the IMA_DIGSIG flag\nthat had been set early was cleared. As a result, IMA hash is generated\nwhen the file is closed.\n\nSimilarly, IMA signature can be cleared on file close after removing\nsecurity xattr like security.evm or setting/removing ACL.\n\nPrevent replacing the IMA file signature with a file hash, by preventing\nthe IMA_DIGSIG flag from being reset.\n\nHere's a minimal C reproducer which sets security.selinux as the last\nstep which can also replaced by removing security.evm or setting ACL,\n\n #include \u003cstdio.h\u003e\n #include \u003csys/xattr.h\u003e\n #include \u003cfcntl.h\u003e\n #include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstring.h\u003e\n #include \u003cstdlib.h\u003e\n\n int main() {\n const char* file_path = \"/usr/sbin/test_binary\";\n const char* hex_string = \"030204d33204490066306402304\";\n int length = strlen(hex_string);\n char* ima_attr_value;\n int fd;\n\n fd = open(file_path, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644);\n if (fd == -1) {\n perror(\"Error opening file\");\n return 1;\n }\n\n ima_attr_value = (char*)malloc(length / 2 );\n for (int i = 0, j = 0; i \u003c length; i += 2, j++) {\n sscanf(hex_string + i, \"%2hhx\", &ima_attr_value[j]);\n }\n\n if (fsetxattr(fd, \"security.ima\", ima_attr_value, length/2, 0) == -1) {\n perror(\"Error setting extended attribute\");\n close(fd);\n return 1;\n }\n\n const char* selinux_value= \"system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0\";\n if (fsetxattr(fd, \"security.selinux\", selinux_value, strlen(selinux_value), 0) == -1) {\n perror(\"Error setting extended attribute\");\n close(fd);\n return 1;\n }\n\n close(fd);\n\n return 0;\n }" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2993a7e98eb70c737c6f5365a190e79c72b8407"},{"version":"e3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"edd824eb45e4f7e05ad3ab090dab6dbdb79cd292"},{"version":"e3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02aa671c08a4834bef5166743a7b88686fbfa023"},{"version":"e3ccfe1ad7d895487977ef64eda3441d16c9851a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88b4cbcf6b041ae0f2fc8a34554a5b6a83a2b7cd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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