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CVE-2025-68262

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CVE-2025-68262

Published: Dec 16, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup The crypto/zstd module has a double-free bug that occurs when multiple tfms are allocated and freed. The issue happens because zstd_streams (per-CPU contexts) are freed in zstd_exit() during every tfm destruction, rather than being managed at the module level. When multiple tfms exist, each tfm exit attempts to free the same shared per-CPU streams, resulting in a double-free. This leads to a stack trace similar to: BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u16:1 pfn:106fd93 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x106fd93 flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) page_type: 0xffffffff() raw: 0017ffffc0000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: nonzero entire_mapcount Modules linked in: ... CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 2506 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B Hardware name: ... Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80 bad_page+0x71/0xd0 free_unref_page_prepare+0x24e/0x490 free_unref_page+0x60/0x170 crypto_acomp_free_streams+0x5d/0xc0 crypto_acomp_exit_tfm+0x23/0x50 crypto_destroy_tfm+0x60/0xc0 ... Change the lifecycle management of zstd_streams to free the streams only once during module cleanup.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
f5ad93ffb54119a8dc5e18f070624d4ead586969 - < dc0f4509b0ed5d82bef78e058db0ac4df04d0695
affected
f5ad93ffb54119a8dc5e18f070624d4ead586969 - < e983feaa79de1e46c9087fb9f02fedb0e5397ce6
affected
f5ad93ffb54119a8dc5e18f070624d4ead586969 - < 48bc9da3c97c15f1ea24934bcb3b736acd30163d

Linux

Linux

affected
6.17
unaffected
0 - < 6.17
unaffected
6.17.12 - <= 6.17.*
unaffected
6.18.1 - <= 6.18.*
unaffected
6.19 - <= *

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