CVE-2025-68177

Updated on 16 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq/longhaul: handle NULL policy in longhaul_exit

longhaul_exit() was calling cpufreq_cpu_get(0) without checking for a NULL policy pointer. On some systems, this could lead to a NULL dereference and a kernel warning or panic.

This patch adds a check using unlikely() and returns early if the policy is NULL.

Bugzilla: #219962

Details

Affected packages:
kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+1 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Debian 12 Planned
Debian 13 Will Not Fix
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned