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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68199"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:48:27.813Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:48:34.800Z"
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-2025-68199"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68199.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68199"
title: "codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncodetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext\n\nWhen alloc_slab_obj_exts() fails and then later succeeds in allocating a\nslab extension vector, it calls handle_failed_objexts_alloc() to mark all\nobjects in the vector as empty.  As a result all objects in this slab\n(slabA) will have their extensions set to CODETAG_EMPTY.\n\nLater on if this slabA is used to allocate a slabobj_ext vector for\nanother slab (slabB), we end up with the slabB-\u003eobj_exts pointing to a\nslabobj_ext vector that itself has a non-NULL slabobj_ext equal to\nCODETAG_EMPTY.  When slabB gets freed, free_slab_obj_exts() is called to\nfree slabB-\u003eobj_exts vector.  \n\nfree_slab_obj_exts() calls mark_objexts_empty(slabB-\u003eobj_exts) which will\ngenerate a warning because it expects slabobj_ext vectors to have a NULL\nobj_ext, not CODETAG_EMPTY.\n\nModify mark_objexts_empty() to skip the warning and setting the obj_ext\nvalue if it's already set to CODETAG_EMPTY.\n\n\nTo quickly detect this WARN, I modified the code from\nWARN_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct) to BUG_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct == 1);\n\nWe then obtained this message:\n\n[21630.898561] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[21630.898596] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2050!\n[21630.898611] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP\n[21630.900372] Modules linked in: squashfs isofs vfio_iommu_type1 \nvhost_vsock vfio vhost_net vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vhost tap \nvhost_iotlb iommufd vsock binfmt_misc nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace \nnetfs tls rds dns_resolver tun brd overlay ntfs3 exfat btrfs \nblake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq loop sctp ip6_udp_tunnel \nudp_tunnel nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib \nnft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct \nnft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \nnf_tables rfkill ip_set sunrpc vfat fat joydev sg sch_fq_codel nfnetlink \nvirtio_gpu sr_mod cdrom drm_client_lib virtio_dma_buf drm_shmem_helper \ndrm_kms_helper drm ghash_ce backlight virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_scsi \nnet_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio dm_mirror \ndm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod fuse i2c_dev virtio_pci \nvirtio_pci_legacy_dev virtio_pci_modern_dev virtio virtio_ring autofs4 \naes_neon_bs aes_ce_blk [last unloaded: hwpoison_inject]\n[21630.909177] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3787 Comm: kylin-process-m Kdump: \nloaded Tainted: G        W           6.18.0-rc1+ #74 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[21630.910495] Tainted: [W]=WARN\n[21630.910867] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown \n2/2/2022\n[21630.911625] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS \nBTYPE=--)\n[21630.912392] pc : __free_slab+0x228/0x250\n[21630.912868] lr : __free_slab+0x18c/0x250[21630.913334] sp : \nffff8000a02f73e0\n[21630.913830] x29: ffff8000a02f73e0 x28: fffffdffc43fc800 x27: \nffff0000c0011c40\n[21630.914677] x26: ffff0000c000cac0 x25: ffff00010fe5e5f0 x24: \nffff000102199b40\n[21630.915469] x23: 0000000000000003 x22: 0000000000000003 x21: \nffff0000c0011c40\n[21630.916259] x20: fffffdffc4086600 x19: fffffdffc43fc800 x18: \n0000000000000000\n[21630.917048] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: \n0000000000000000\n[21630.917837] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: \nffff70001405ee66\n[21630.918640] x11: 1ffff0001405ee65 x10: ffff70001405ee65 x9 : \nffff800080a295dc\n[21630.919442] x8 : ffff8000a02f7330 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : \n0000000000003000\n[21630.920232] x5 : 0000000024924925 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : \n0000000000000007\n[21630.921021] x2 : 0000000000001b40 x1 : 000000000000001f x0 : \n0000000000000001\n[21630.921810] Call trace:\n[21630.922130]  __free_slab+0x228/0x250 (P)\n[21630.922669]  free_slab+0x38/0x118\n[21630.923079]  free_to_partial_list+0x1d4/0x340\n[21630.923591]  __slab_free+0x24c/0x348\n[21630.924024]  ___cache_free+0xf0/0x110\n[21630.924468]  qlist_free_all+0x78/0x130\n[21630.924922]  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x11\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc6acd4cddf76e7eb7db63649fe36980ce208f56"},{"version":"09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f56c407feb967e6faeb4e2e04eaa8edc206a686"},{"version":"09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1abbdf3d57aa964e572940d67c9ec5dc87710738"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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