CVE-2025-68742 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.2HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix invalid prog->stats access when update_effective_progs fails
Syzkaller triggers an invalid memory access issue following fault
injection in update_effective_progs. The issue can be described as
follows:
__cgroup_bpf_detach
update_effective_progs
compute_effective_progs
bpf_prog_array_alloc items[index] = &dummy_bpf_prog.prog
---softirq start---
__do_softirq
...
__cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb
__bpf_prog_run_save_cb
bpf_…