# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68337"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-22T16:14:14.145Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:09:52.527Z"
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-2025-68337"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68337.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68337"
title: "jbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njbd2: avoid bug_on in jbd2_journal_get_create_access() when file system corrupted\n\nThere's issue when file system corrupted:\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1289!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-next\nRIP: 0010:jbd2_journal_get_create_access+0x3b6/0x4d0\nRSP: 0018:ffff888117aafa30 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88811a86b000 RCX: ffffffff89a63534\nRDX: 1ffff110200ec602 RSI: 0000000000000004 RDI: ffff888100763010\nRBP: ffff888100763000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff888100763028\nR10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff88812c432000 R14: ffff88812c608000 R15: ffff888120bfc000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f91d6970c99 CR3: 00000001159c4000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __ext4_journal_get_create_access+0x42/0x170\n ext4_getblk+0x319/0x6f0\n ext4_bread+0x11/0x100\n ext4_append+0x1e6/0x4a0\n ext4_init_new_dir+0x145/0x1d0\n ext4_mkdir+0x326/0x920\n vfs_mkdir+0x45c/0x740\n do_mkdirat+0x234/0x2f0\n __x64_sys_mkdir+0xd6/0x120\n do_syscall_64+0x5f/0xfa0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nThe above issue occurs with us in errors=continue mode when accompanied by\nstorage failures. There have been many inconsistencies in the file system\ndata.\nIn the case of file system data inconsistency, for example, if the block\nbitmap of a referenced block is not set, it can lead to the situation where\na block being committed is allocated and used again. As a result, the\nfollowing condition will not be satisfied then trigger BUG_ON. Of course,\nit is entirely possible to construct a problematic image that can trigger\nthis BUG_ON through specific operations. In fact, I have constructed such\nan image and easily reproduced this issue.\nTherefore, J_ASSERT() holds true only under ideal conditions, but it may\nnot necessarily be satisfied in exceptional scenarios. Using J_ASSERT()\ndirectly in abnormal situations would cause the system to crash, which is\nclearly not what we want. So here we directly trigger a JBD abort instead\nof immediately invoking BUG_ON."
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