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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68179"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:59:50.667Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:58:56.123Z"
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-2026-68179"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68179.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68179"
title: "misc: nsm: only unlock nsm_dev on post-lock error paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmisc: nsm: only unlock nsm_dev on post-lock error paths\n\nnsm_dev_ioctl() jumps to the common out label even when the initial\ncopy_from_user() fails before nsm-\u003elock has been taken.  The error path\nthen blindly unlocks a mutex that was never acquired.\n\nThis issue was found by our static analysis tool and then manually\nreviewed against the current tree.\n\nThe grounded PoC kept the miscdevice ioctl entry and the pre-lock\ncopy_from_user(&raw, argp, _IOC_SIZE(cmd)) failure path by issuing\nNSM_IOCTL_RAW with an invalid user pointer.  That failure reaches the\nshared out label before mutex_lock(&nsm-\u003elock).  Lockdep reported:\n\n  WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!\n  exploit/193 is trying to release lock (&global_nsm.lock) at:\n  nsm_dev_ioctl+0x5f/0xcf [vuln_msv]\n  but there are no more locks to release!\n  no locks held by exploit/193.\n\nReturn immediately on the pre-lock copy_from_user() failure and keep the\ncommon unlock label for the post-lock paths only."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4aa3f7d48e91eb74a363c1b4d7dbdd28f5b341fb"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f068342096b027181b168d91fef7ac7a2c64b25"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f318f5a872cb9096536e759b23ae5c9873bb80ed"},{"version":"b9873755a6c8ccfce79094c4dce9efa3ecb1a749","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce1fed11d18e163baf7f875152a33bf80f625c1a"}],"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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