{"cve":"CVE-2025-68796","nvd":{"published":"2026-01-13T16:16:01.540","modified":"2026-06-17T09:59:36.160","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to avoid updating zero-sized extent in extent cache\n\nAs syzbot reported:\n\nF2FS-fs (loop0): __update_extent_tree_range: extent len is zero, type: 0, extent [0, 0, 0], age [0, 0]\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5336 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__update_extent_tree_range+0x13bc/0x1500 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:678\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n f2fs_update_read_extent_cache_range+0x192/0x3e0 fs/f2fs/extent_cache.c:1085\n f2fs_do_zero_range fs/f2fs/file.c:1657 [inline]\n f2fs_zero_range+0x10c1/0x1580 fs/f2fs/file.c:1737\n f2fs_fallocate+0x583/0x990 fs/f2fs/file.c:2030\n vfs_fallocate+0x669/0x7e0 fs/open.c:342\n ioctl_preallocate fs/ioctl.c:289 [inline]\n file_ioctl+0x611/0x780 fs/ioctl.c:-1\n do_vfs_ioctl+0xb33/0x1430 fs/ioctl.c:576\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:595 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x82/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7f07bc58eec9\n\nIn error path of f2fs_zero_range(), it may add a zero-sized extent\ninto extent cache, it should be avoided.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f244c64efe628d277b916f47071adf480eb8646","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72c58a82e6fb7b327e8701f5786c70c3edc56188","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c37c79510329cd951a4dedf3f7bf7e2b18dccec","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c07bd262c13ca922adad6e7613d48505f97f548","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bac23833220a1f8fe8dfab7e16efa20ff64d7589"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:19:41.481987139+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-68796","score":0.00207,"percentile":0.10789,"date":"2026-10-31"},"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."]}