CVE-2025-68250 — Type Confusion in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 89.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateFeb 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers
The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least
4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding.
However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k
only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the
assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger.
To fix this, the runtime checks are adjus…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxe711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 — c0e2dcbe54cb15ecdf9d8f4501c6720423243888+2