# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68148"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:13.413Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:54.031Z"
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-2026-68148"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68148.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68148"
title: "fscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key()\n\nThe legacy 'fscrypt_direct_keys' table caches master keys that are used\nby v1 encryption policies that have FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY.\nIt's just a global table for all filesystems (since the keys can be\nprovided by the legacy process-subscribed keyrings mechanism, which\nmakes it difficult to reuse super_block::s_master_keys).\n\nThe entries in it ('struct fscrypt_direct_key') do contain a super_block\npointer, though, for passing to fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() when\nthe last inode that references the key is evicted.\n\nHowever, when finding the fscrypt_direct_key for an inode, we weren't\nactually comparing the super_block pointer.  As a result, inodes with\ndifferent super_blocks could point to the same fscrypt_direct_key.  That\ncould extend the lifetime of a fscrypt_direct_key beyond the\nsuper_block it points to, causing a use-after-free later.\n\nFix this by creating distinct fscrypt_direct_key structs for distinct\nsuper_block structs.\n\nNote that this problem doesn't exist in the v2 policy equivalent\n(\"per-mode keys\"), since the data structures there are per super_block."
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