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THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-68299 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key The allocation of a cell's anonymous key is done in a background thread along with other cell setup such as doing a DNS upcall. In the reported bug, this i

[NVD] CVE-2025-68299 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key The allocation of a cell's anonymous key is done in a background thread along with other cell setup such as doing a DNS upcall. In the reported bug, this i

lownvdPublished 2025-12-16

CVE-2025-68299 CVSS: None Published: 2025-12-16T16:16:09.400

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix delayed allocation of a cell's anonymous key

The allocation of a cell's anonymous key is done in a background thread along with other cell setup such as doing a DNS upcall. In the reported bug, this is triggered by afs_parse_source() parsing the device name

Indicators of compromise

CVE-2025-68299cve

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68299