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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68285" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T15:06:07.078Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:10:39.092Z" 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-2025-68285" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68285.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68285" title: "libceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nlibceph: fix potential use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map()\n\nThe wait loop in __ceph_open_session() can race with the client\nreceiving a new monmap or osdmap shortly after the initial map is\nreceived. Both ceph_monc_handle_map() and handle_one_map() install\na new map immediately after freeing the old one\n\n kfree(monc-\u003emonmap);\n monc-\u003emonmap = monmap;\n\n ceph_osdmap_destroy(osdc-\u003eosdmap);\n osdc-\u003eosdmap = newmap;\n\nunder client-\u003emonc.mutex and client-\u003eosdc.lock respectively, but\nbecause neither is taken in have_mon_and_osd_map() it's possible for\nclient-\u003emonc.monmap-\u003eepoch and client-\u003eosdc.osdmap-\u003eepoch arms in\n\n client-\u003emonc.monmap && client-\u003emonc.monmap-\u003eepoch &&\n client-\u003eosdc.osdmap && client-\u003eosdc.osdmap-\u003eepoch;\n\ncondition to dereference an already freed map. This happens to be\nreproducible with generic/395 and generic/397 with KASAN enabled:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811012d810 by task mount.ceph/13305\n CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 13305 Comm: mount.ceph Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-build2+ #1266\n ...\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n have_mon_and_osd_map+0x56/0x70\n ceph_open_session+0x182/0x290\n ceph_get_tree+0x333/0x680\n vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180\n do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0\n path_mount+0x6dd/0x730\n do_mount+0x99/0xe0\n __do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180\n do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 13305:\n ceph_osdmap_alloc+0x16/0x130\n ceph_osdc_init+0x27a/0x4c0\n ceph_create_client+0x153/0x190\n create_fs_client+0x50/0x2a0\n ceph_get_tree+0xff/0x680\n vfs_get_tree+0x49/0x180\n do_new_mount+0x1a3/0x2d0\n path_mount+0x6dd/0x730\n do_mount+0x99/0xe0\n __do_sys_mount+0x141/0x180\n do_syscall_64+0x9f/0x100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n Freed by task 9475:\n kfree+0x212/0x290\n handle_one_map+0x23c/0x3b0\n ceph_osdc_handle_map+0x3c9/0x590\n mon_dispatch+0x655/0x6f0\n ceph_con_process_message+0xc3/0xe0\n ceph_con_v1_try_read+0x614/0x760\n ceph_con_workfn+0x2de/0x650\n process_one_work+0x486/0x7c0\n process_scheduled_works+0x73/0x90\n worker_thread+0x1c8/0x2a0\n kthread+0x2ec/0x300\n ret_from_fork+0x24/0x40\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nRewrite the wait loop to check the above condition directly with\nclient-\u003emonc.mutex and client-\u003eosdc.lock taken as appropriate. While\nat it, improve the timeout handling (previously mount_timeout could be\nexceeded in case wait_event_interruptible_timeout() slept more than\nonce) and access client-\u003eauth_err under client-\u003emonc.mutex to match\nhow it's set in finish_auth().\n\nmonmap_show() and osdmap_show() now take the respective lock before\naccessing the map as well." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb4910c5fd436701faf367e1b5476a5a6d2aff1c"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05ec43e9a9de67132dc8cd3b22afef001574947f"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c8ccdc1714d9fabecd26e1be7db1771061acc6e"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"183ad6e3b651e8fb0b66d6a2678f4b80bfbba092"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e08021b3b56b2407f37b5fe47b654be80cc665fb"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fc43120b22a3d4f1fbeff56a35ce2105b6a5683"},{"version":"6822d00b5462e7a9dfa11dcc60cc25823a2107c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"076381c261374c587700b3accf410bdd2dba334e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.35","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.35"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.119","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.61","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.11","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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