CVE-2026-68176

Updated on 10 Aug 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5

Overview

About vulnerability

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

tracing: Fix mmiotrace possible NULL dereferencing of hiter->dev

If the mmio_pipe_open() fails to find a PCI device, the hiter->dev will be assigned to NULL. The mmiotrace read() function dereferences the hiter->dev if hiter exists.

Change the test of the read to not only check hiter being NULL, but also the hiter->dev before dereferencing it.

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KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
CentOS 7 ELS Planned —
Debian 12 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Azure Planned —
Ubuntu 24.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Planned —
Ubuntu 26.04 Will Not Fix —