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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68366" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:32:53.399Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-16T19:12:35.384Z" 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-2025-68366" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68366.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68366" title: "nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect\n\nThere is one use-after-free warning when running NBD_CMD_CONNECT and\nNBD_CLEAR_SOCK:\n\nnbd_genl_connect\n nbd_alloc_and_init_config // config_refs=1\n nbd_start_device // config_refs=2\n set NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF\t\t\topen nbd // config_refs=3\n recv_work done // config_refs=2\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNBD_CLEAR_SOCK // config_refs=1\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclose nbd // config_refs=0\n refcount_inc -\u003e uaf\n\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nrefcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.\nWARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1014 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x12e/0x290\n nbd_genl_connect+0x16d0/0x1ab0\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1f3/0x310\n genl_rcv_msg+0x44a/0x790\n\nThe issue can be easily reproduced by adding a small delay before\nrefcount_inc(&nbd-\u003econfig_refs) in nbd_genl_connect():\n\n mutex_unlock(&nbd-\u003econfig_lock);\n if (!ret) {\n set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, &config-\u003eruntime_flags);\n+ printk(\"before sleep\\n\");\n+ mdelay(5 * 1000);\n+ printk(\"after sleep\\n\");\n refcount_inc(&nbd-\u003econfig_refs);\n nbd_connect_reply(info, nbd-\u003eindex);\n }" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"330d688a5ca53857828081a3cf31b92ad1b0b3ed"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd93db1b1b4460e6ee77564024ea461e5940f69c"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae3e7bc1f4b393ae20e5c85583eb2c6977374716"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e5e0665a594f076ef2b9439447bae8be293d09d"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9b99c948b4fb014812afe7b5ccf2db121d22e46"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a38306643874566d20f7aba7dff9e6f657b51a9"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c9e805f6a35d1dd189a9345595a5c20e87611942"},{"version":"e46c7287b1c27683a8e30ca825fb98e2b97f1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1649714b930f9ea6233ce0810ba885999da3b5d4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.12"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.63","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","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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