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Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.162-1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 459506

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix return value of
 f2fs_recover_fsync_data() With below scripts, it will trigger panic in f2fs: mkfs.f2fs -f /dev/vdd mount
 /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs touch /mnt/f2fs/foo sync echo 111 >> /mnt/f2fs/foo f2fs_io fsync /mnt/f2fs/foo f2fs_io
 shutdown 2 /mnt/f2fs umount /mnt/f2fs mount -o ro,norecovery /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs or mount -o
 ro,disable_roll_forward /dev/vdd /mnt/f2fs F2FS-fs (vdd): f2fs_recover_fsync_data: recovery fsync data,
 check_only: 0 F2FS-fs (vdd): Mounted with checkpoint version = 7f5c361f F2FS-fs (vdd): Stopped filesystem
 due to reason: 0 F2FS-fs (vdd): f2fs_recover_fsync_data: recovery fsync data, check_only: 1 Filesystem
 f2fs get_tree() didn't set fc->root, returned 1 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at
 fs/super.c:1761! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 722 Comm: mount Not tainted
 6.18.0-rc2+ #721 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:vfs_get_tree.cold+0x18/0x1a Call Trace: <TASK>
 fc_mount+0x13/0xa0 path_mount+0x34e/0xc50 __x64_sys_mount+0x121/0x150 do_syscall_64+0x84/0x800
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7fa6cc126cfe The root cause is we missed to handle
 error number returned from f2fs_recover_fsync_data() when mounting image w/ ro,norecovery or
 ro,disable_roll_forward mount option, result in returning a positive error number to vfs_get_tree(), fix
 it. (CVE-2025-68769)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.162-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-68769

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 459506

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.43

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68769

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68769