CVE-2025-68365

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base

8.2 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

0.4%

35.8th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

CWE-908

Published 2025-12-24 · modified 2026-07-30

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector	N	Network
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	N	None
User Interaction	N	None
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	L	Low
Integrity	N	None
Availability	H	High

Timeline

2025-12-24 — Published (NVD)
2026-07-30 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Initialize allocated memory before use KMSAN reports: Multiple uninitialized values detected: - KMSAN: uninit-value in ntfs_read_hdr (3) - KMSAN: uninit-value in bcmp (3) Memory is allocated by __getname(), which is a wrapper for kmem_cache_alloc(). This memory is used before being properly cleared. Change kmem_cache_alloc() to kmem_cache_zalloc() to properly allocate and clear memory before use.

Affected

linux

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org