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CVE-2025-68312 (GCVE-0-2025-68312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 15:39 – Updated: 2026-06-16 16:26
VLAI
Title
usbnet: Prevents free active kevent
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usbnet: Prevents free active kevent The root cause of this issue are: 1. When probing the usbnet device, executing usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0); put the kevent work in global workqueue. However, the kevent has not yet been scheduled when the usbnet device is unregistered. Therefore, executing free_netdev() results in the "free active object (kevent)" error reported here. 2. Another factor is that when calling usbnet_disconnect()->unregister_netdev(), if the usbnet device is up, ndo_stop() is executed to cancel the kevent. However, because the device is not up, ndo_stop() is not executed. The solution to this problem is to cancel the kevent before executing free_netdev().
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-16 16:25 UTC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8b4588b8b00b299be16a35be67b331d8fdba03f3 , < 285d4b953f2ca03c358f986718dd89ee9bde632e (git)
Affected: 135199a2edd459d2b123144efcd7f9bcd95128e4 , < 88a38b135d69f5db9024ff6527232f1b51be8915 (git)
Affected: 635fd8953e4309b54ca6a81bed1d4a87668694f4 , < 43005002b60ef3424719ecda16d124714b45da3b (git)
Affected: a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74 , < 3a10619fdefd3051aeb14860e4d4335529b4e94d (git)
Affected: a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74 , < 9a579d6a39513069d298eee70770bbac8a148565 (git)
Affected: a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74 , < 2ce1de32e05445d77fc056f6ff8339cfb78a5f84 (git)
Affected: a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74 , < 5158fb8da162e3982940f30cd01ed77bdf42c6fc (git)
Affected: a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74 , < 420c84c330d1688b8c764479e5738bbdbf0a33de (git)
Affected: d2d6b530d89b0a912148018027386aa049f0a309 (git)
Affected: e2a521a7dcc463c5017b4426ca0804e151faeff7 (git)
Affected: 7f77dcbc030c2faa6d8e8a594985eeb34018409e (git)
Affected: d49bb8cf9bfaa06aa527eb30f1a52a071da2e32f (git)
Affected: db3b738ae5f726204876f4303c49cfdf4311403f (git)
Affected: 5.4.211 , < 5.4.302 (semver)
Affected: 5.10.137 , < 5.10.247 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.61 , < 5.15.197 (semver)
Affected: 4.9.326 , < 4.10 (semver)
Affected: 4.14.291 , < 4.15 (semver)
Affected: 4.19.256 , < 4.20 (semver)
Affected: 5.18.18 , < 5.19 (semver)
Affected: 5.19.2 , < 5.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.302 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.247 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.197 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.117 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.58 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.8 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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