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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68147" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:12.308Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:30:11.166Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-68147" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68147.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68147" title: "fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices()\n\nWhen a blk_crypto_key starts being used or is evicted, fs/crypto/ calls\nfscrypt_get_devices() to get the filesystem's list of block devices,\nthen iterates over them and calls blk_crypto_config_supported(),\nblk_crypto_start_using_key(), or blk_crypto_evict_key() on each one.\n\nCurrently, the block device pointers are placed in a dynamically\nallocated array. This dynamic allocation is problematic because:\n\n- It can fail, especially at the fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() call\n site when it's invoked for inode eviction under direct reclaim.\n\n- fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() doesn't handle the failure. It\n just zeroizes and frees the blk_crypto_key without calling\n blk_crypto_evict_key(). That causes a use-after-free.\n\nFor now, let's fix this in the straightforward and easily-backportable\nway by switching to an on-stack array. Currently the fscrypt\nmulti-device functionality is used only by f2fs, which has a hardcoded\nlimit of 8 block devices. An on-stack array works fine for that.\n\n(Of course, this solution won't scale up to large number of block\ndevices. For that we'd need a different solution, like moving the block\ndevice iteration into the filesystem. Or in the case of btrfs, which\nwill only support blk-crypto-fallback, we should make it just call\nblk-crypto-fallback directly, so the block devices won't be needed.)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0"},{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8"},{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244"},{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86"},{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749"},{"version":"22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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