# 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-2025-68806"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:13.797Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:11:38.392Z"
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-2025-68806"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68806.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68806"
title: "ksmbd: fix buffer validation by including null terminator size in EA length"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: fix buffer validation by including null terminator size in EA length\n\nThe smb2_set_ea function, which handles Extended Attributes (EA),\nwas performing buffer validation checks that incorrectly omitted the size\nof the null terminating character (+1 byte) for EA Name.\nThis patch fixes the issue by explicitly adding '+ 1' to EaNameLength where\nthe null terminator is expected to be present in the buffer, ensuring\nthe validation accurately reflects the total required buffer size."
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