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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68178"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:49.344Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:55.830Z"
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-2026-68178"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68178.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68178"
title: "misc: nsm: pin the module while the device is open"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc: nsm: pin the module while the device is open\n\nmisc_open() installs a misc driver's file operations with fops_get(),\nwhich pins file_operations::owner before replacing the file's f_op.  The\nNSM misc device leaves nsm_dev_fops.owner unset, so opening /dev/nsm does\nnot take a module reference on the nsm driver.\n\nIf the driver is built as a module, an open file descriptor can therefore\nsurvive rmmod of the module that provides its ioctl callbacks.  A later\nioctl through that descriptor can call into unloaded module text.\n\nSet nsm_dev_fops.owner to THIS_MODULE so the misc core holds the module\nwhile any /dev/nsm file descriptor is open, matching the lifetime\nexpectation for the installed file operations."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1996639f824ce9468395cdb7bcb8f467fa787e77"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1da310b94504d42001e9c32c43c5dc105b777e5f"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e9a82d00c3d10129fc310a7547b24a679d5d920"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b231f1e9990f4c21220d0a69733ce2105891ff9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"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"}]

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