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  "cveId": "CVE-2025-68368",
  "url": "https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68368",
  "summary": "CVE-2025-68368 is fixed in 14 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68368, released December 24, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.",
  "title": "linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  md: init bioset in mddev_init  IO operations may...",
  "description": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  md: init bioset in mddev_init  IO operations may be needed before md_run(), such as updating metadata after writing sysfs. Without bioset, this triggers a NULL pointer dereference as below:   BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020  Call Trace:   md_update_sb\u002B0x658/0xe00   new_level_store\u002B0xc5/0x120   md_attr_store\u002B0xc9/0x1e0   sysfs_kf_write\u002B0x6f/0xa0   kernfs_fop_write_iter\u002B0x141/0x2a0   vfs_write\u002B0x1fc/0x5a0   ksys_write\u002B0x79/0x180   __x64_sys_write\u002B0x1d/0x30   x64_sys_call\u002B0x2818/0x2880   do_syscall_64\u002B0xa9/0x580   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe\u002B0x4b/0x53  Reproducer \u0060\u0060\u0060   mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sd[cd]   echo inactive \u003E /sys/block/md0/md/array_state   echo 10 \u003E /sys/block/md0/md/new_level \u0060\u0060\u0060  mddev_init() can only be called once per mddev, no need to test if bioset has been initialized anymore.",
  "published": "2025-12-24T11:16:00Z",
  "severity": "",
  "epss": 0.00212,
  "epssPercentile": 0.11534,
  "priority": "Routine",
  "priorityTier": 4,
  "exploited": false,
  "vendorExploited": false,
  "disclosed": false,
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