CVE-2025-68300 | fs/namespace: fix reference leak in grab_requested_mnt_ns

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/namespace: fix reference leak in grab_requested_mnt_ns lookup_mnt_ns() already takes a reference on mnt_ns. grab_requested_mnt_ns() doesn't need to take an extra reference.

Published: 2025-12-16 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-68300 is rated Low Risk (5.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.15%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-68300

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.15% +0.14%
2 2025-12-17 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68300

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68300

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68300

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-68300 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68300
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68300
suse medium CVE-2025-68300 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 285 product×package rows across 56 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (56 product lines)): Known Not Affected 285. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68300/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68300 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 172, not-affected 123, released 100. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68300

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68300

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-68300

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