# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68820"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:23.351Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:15:10.329Z"
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-2025-68820"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68820.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68820"
title: "ext4: xattr: fix null pointer deref in ext4_raw_inode()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: xattr: fix null pointer deref in ext4_raw_inode()\n\nIf ext4_get_inode_loc() fails (e.g. if it returns -EFSCORRUPTED),\niloc.bh will remain set to NULL. Since ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()\nlacks error checking, this will lead to a null pointer dereference\nin ext4_raw_inode(), called right after ext4_get_inode_loc().\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE."
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