CVE-2025-68776 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/hsr: fix NULL pointer dereference in prp_get_untagged_frame()
prp_get_untagged_frame() calls __pskb_copy() to create frame->skb_std
but doesn't check if the allocation failed. If __pskb_copy() returns
NULL, skb_clone() is called with a NULL pointer, causing a crash:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000…
Affected Packages16 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
10OSV▶
linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 vulnerabilities↗2026-03-17