CVE-2025-68178 — Deadlock in Linux
Severity
3.2LOWOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.17%
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:
blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
Following deadlock can be triggered easily by lockdep:
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.17.0-rc3-00124-ga12c2658ced0 #1665 Not tainted
check/1334 is trying to acquire lock:
ff1100011d9d0678 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: blk_unregister_queue+0x53/0x180
but task is already holding lock:
ff1100011d9d00e0 (&q->q_usage_counter(queue)#3){++++}-{…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa13bd91be22318768d55470cbc0b0f4488ef9edf — e1729523759cda2c0afb76b1c88e0d2f2ef5b7cb+5