CVE-2025-68763 | crypto: starfive - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len

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.

Published: 2026-01-05 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-68763 is rated Low Risk (7.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.17%). 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-2025-68763

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% 0.17% +0.15%
2 2026-01-05 0.02%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68763

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68763

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68763

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-68763 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-2025-68763
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68763
suse medium CVE-2025-68763 severity moderate: SUSE including 29 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 243 product×package rows across 47 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0, … (47 product lines)): Known Not Affected 237, Fixed 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68763/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68763 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1562 status rows across 10 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1157, ignored 179, released 123, not-affected 89, needed 7, pending 7. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68763

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68763

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-68763

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