Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 5, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-68763
CVE-2025-68763
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: starfive - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len
The return value of sg_nents_for_len was assigned to an unsigned long in starfive_hash_digest, causing negative error codes to be converted to large positive integers.
Add error checking for sg_nents_for_len and return immediately on failure to prevent potential buffer overflows.
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Affected products
4- osv-coords3 versionspkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
>= 6.5.0, < 6.6.120+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 6.5.0, < 6.6.120
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.5-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.18.16-1.1
Patches
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References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c3854d65cc4402cb8c52d4d773450a06efecab6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1af5c973dd744e29fa22121f43e8646b7a7a71a7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cd14414394b4f3d6e1ed64b8241d1fcc2271820nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b3f71cf02e04cfaa482155e3078707fe7f8aef4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9eb52037a529fbb307c290e9951a62dd728b03dnvd
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