CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68366
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-13
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nbd: defer config unlock in nbd_genl_connect
There is one use-after-free warning when running NBD_CMD_CONNECT and
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK:
nbd_genl_connect
nbd_alloc_and_init_config // config_refs=1
nbd_start_device // config_refs=2
set NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF open nbd // config_refs=3
recv_work done // config_refs=2
NBD_CLEAR_SOCK // config_refs=1
close nbd // config_refs=0
refcount_inc -> uaf
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 24 PID: 1014 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x12e/0x290
nbd_genl_connect+0x16d0/0x1ab0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1f3/0x310
genl_rcv_msg+0x44a/0x790
The issue can be easily reproduced by adding a small delay before
refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs) in nbd_genl_connect():
mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
if (!ret) {
set_bit(NBD_RT_HAS_CONFIG_REF, &config->runtime_flags);
+ printk("before sleep\n");
+ mdelay(5 * 1000);
+ printk("after sleep\n");
refcount_inc(&nbd->config_refs);
nbd_connect_reply(info, nbd->index);
}
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1649714b930f9ea6233ce0810ba885999da3b5d4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e5e0665a594f076ef2b9439447bae8be293d09d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/330d688a5ca53857828081a3cf31b92ad1b0b3ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a38306643874566d20f7aba7dff9e6f657b51a9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae3e7bc1f4b393ae20e5c85583eb2c6977374716 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9b99c948b4fb014812afe7b5ccf2db121d22e46 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9e805f6a35d1dd189a9345595a5c20e87611942 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd93db1b1b4460e6ee77564024ea461e5940f69c git.kernel.org