CVE-2025-68173 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux
Severity
3.2LOWOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 84.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateApr 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable
A soft lockup was observed when loading amdgpu module.
If a module has a lot of tracable functions, multiple calls
to kallsyms_lookup can spend too much time in RCU critical
section and with disabled preemption, causing kernel panic.
This is the same issue that was fixed in
commit d0b24b4e91fc ("ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
kernels") and commit 42ea22e754ba ("ftr…
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb7ffffbb46f205e7727a18bcc7a46c3c2b534f7c — a1dd0abd741a8111260676da729825d6c1461a71+5