Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-68323)
Summary
Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-68323). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 6.17.13, 6.18.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: typec: ucsi: fix use-after-free caused by uec->work
The delayed work uec->work is scheduled in gaokun_ucsi_probe()
but never properly canceled in gaokun_ucsi_remove(). This creates
use-after-free scenarios where the ucsi and gaokun_ucsi structure
are freed after ucsi_destroy() completes execution, while the
gaokun_ucsi_register_worker() might be either currently executing
or still pending in the work queue. The already-freed gaokun_ucsi
or ucsi structure may then be accessed.
Furthermore, the race window is 3 seconds, which is sufficiently
long to make this bug easily reproducible. The following is the
trace captured by KASAN:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timers+0x5ec/0x630
Write of size 8 at addr ffff00000ec28cc8 by task swapper/0/0
...
Call trace:
show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90
print_report+0x114/0x580
kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
__asan_report_store8_noabort+0x20/0x2c
__run_timers+0x5ec/0x630
run_timer_softirq+0xe8/0x1cc
handle_softirqs+0x294/0x720
__do_softirq+0x14/0x20
____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c
call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x28
_irq_exit_rcu+0x27c/0x364
irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
el1_interrupt+0x40/0x60
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
arch_local_irq_enable+0x4/0x8 (P)
do_idle+0x334/0x458
cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x70
rest_init+0x158/0x174
start…
Auto-generated summary
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-68323 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 6.17.13, 6.18.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-68323" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-68323 (Kernel)
Patched: 6.17.13, 6.18.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 6.17.13, 6.18.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Kernel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Kernel' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Kernelを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade Kernel to 6.17.13, 6.18.2ステージング環境で 6.17.13, 6.18.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-68323 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.18.35-r1
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68323 linux Fixed in: 6.17.13-1
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68323 linux-hwe-edge
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org
- web git.kernel.org