{"id":75498,"date":"2026-01-05T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68761-hfs-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-hfs_correct_next_unused_cnid\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:32:33","slug":"cve-2025-68761-hfs-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-hfs_correct_next_unused_cnid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-68761-hfs-fix-potential-use-after-free-in-hfs_correct_next_unused_cnid\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-68761 &#8211; hfs: fix potential use after free in hfs_correct_next_unused_CNID()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68761<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Jan. 5, 2026, 9:32 a.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>hfs: fix potential use after free in hfs_correct_next_unused_CNID()<\/p>\n<p>This code calls hfs_bnode_put(node) which drops the refcount and then<br \/>\ndreferences &#8220;node&#8221; on the next line.  It&#8217;s only safe to use &#8220;node&#8221;<br \/>\nwhen we&#8217;re holding a reference so flip these two lines around.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-68761 Published : Jan. 5, 2026, 9:32 a.m. | 53\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs: fix potential use after free in hfs_correct_next_unused_CNID() This code calls hfs_bnode_put(node) which drops the refcount and then dreferences &#8220;node&#8221; on the next line. It&#8217;s only safe to use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}