CVE-2025-68199EPSS p8.8%
CVE-2025-68199CVE-2025-68199
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext
When alloc_slab_obj_exts() fails and then later succeeds in allocating a
slab extension vector, it calls handle_failed_objexts_alloc() to mark all
objects in the vector as empty. As a result all objects in this slab
(slabA) will have their extensions set to CODETAG_EMPTY.
Later on if this slabA is used to allocate a slabobj_ext vector for
another slab (slabB), we end up with the slabB->obj_exts pointing to a
slabobj_ext vector that itself has a non-NULL slabobj_ext equal to
CODETAG_EMPTY. When slabB gets freed, free_slab_obj_exts() is called to
free slabB->obj_exts vector.
free_slab_obj_exts() calls mark_objexts_empty(slabB->obj_exts) which will
generate a warning because it expects slabobj_ext vectors to have a NULL
obj_ext, not CODETAG_EMPTY.
Modify mark_objexts_empty() to skip the warning and setting the obj_ext
value if it'
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.20% probability of exploitation · percentile 8.8% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-14 |