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Echo: linux: security update to 6.1.159-1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 462996

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: jfs: fix uninitialized waitqueue in
 transaction manager The transaction manager initialization in txInit() was not properly initializing
 TxBlock[0].waitor waitqueue, causing a crash when txEnd(0) is called on read-only filesystems. When a
 filesystem is mounted read-only, txBegin() returns tid=0 to indicate no transaction. However, txEnd(0)
 still gets called and tries to access TxBlock[0].waitor via tid_to_tblock(0), but this waitqueue was never
 initialized because the initialization loop started at index 1 instead of 0. This causes a 'non-static
 key' lockdep warning and system crash: INFO: trying to register non-static key in txEnd Fix by ensuring
 all transaction blocks including TxBlock[0] have their waitqueues properly initialized during txInit().
 (CVE-2025-68168)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.1.159-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-68168

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 462996

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/2/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68168

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: 12/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68168