{"cve":"CVE-2025-68185","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-16T14:15:51.113","modified":"2026-10-14T13:10:00.187","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnfs4_setup_readdir(): insufficient locking for ->d_parent->d_inode dereferencing\n\nTheoretically it's an oopsable race, but I don't believe one can manage\nto hit it on real hardware; might become doable on a KVM, but it still\nwon't be easy to attack.\n\nAnyway, it's easy to deal with - since xdr_encode_hyper() is just a call of\nput_unaligned_be64(), we can put that under ->d_lock and be done with that.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40be5b9080114f18b0cea386db415b68a7273c1a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/504b3fb9948a9e96ebbabdee0d33966a8bab15cb","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6025f641a0e30afdc5aa62017397b1860ad9f677","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a890a2e339b929dbd843328f9a92a1625404fe63","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6cafe71eb3b5579b245ba1bd528a181e77f3df1"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:17:07.138532058+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-68185","score":0.00212,"percentile":0.11345,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}