CVE-2025-68789 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Kernel
Severity
—N/A
No vectorEPSS
No EPSS data
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store The ibmpex_high_low_store() function retrieves driver data using dev_get_drvdata() and uses it without validation. This creates a race condition where the sysfs callback can be invoked after the data structure is freed, leading to use-after-free. Fix by adding a NULL check after dev_get_drvdata(), and reordering operations in the deletion path to prevent TOCTOU.
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2025-68789: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store The ibmpex_high_low_store() f↗2026-01-13
GHSA▶
GHSA-gcc6-9ff3-rhhh: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (ibmpex) fix use-after-free in high/low store
The ibmpex_high_low_store()↗2026-01-13