CVE-2025-68243 (GCVE-0-2025-68243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:21 – Updated: 2025-12-16 14:21
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Title
NFS: Check the TLS certificate fields in nfs_match_client()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Check the TLS certificate fields in nfs_match_client() If the TLS security policy is of type RPC_XPRTSEC_TLS_X509, then the cert_serial and privkey_serial fields need to match as well since they define the client's identity, as presented to the server.
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Linux Linux Affected: 90c9550a8d65fb9b1bf87baf97a04ed91bf61b33 , < b8fa37219074811c04d4ecb742c73e2b296da6a8 (git)
Affected: 90c9550a8d65fb9b1bf87baf97a04ed91bf61b33 , < fb2cba0854a7f315c8100a807a6959b99d72479e (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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