CVE-2025-68757 — Improper Locking in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV7.2
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 5
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vgem-fence: Fix potential deadlock on release
A timer that expires a vgem fence automatically in 10 seconds is now
released with timer_delete_sync() from fence->ops.release() called on last
dma_fence_put(). In some scenarios, it can run in IRQ context, which is
not safe unless TIMER_IRQSAFE is used. One potentially risky scenario was
demonstrated in Intel DRM CI trybot, BAT run on machine bat-adlp-6, while
working on new I…
Affected Packages13 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4077798484459a2eced2050045099a466ecb618a — 37289a18099fc7ce916933bd542926a7334791a3+8