Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-68330)

Summary

Vulnerability in Kernel (CVE-2025-68330). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

iio: accel: bmc150: Fix irq assumption regression

The code in bmc150-accel-core.c unconditionally calls
bmc150_accel_set_interrupt() in the iio_buffer_setup_ops,
such as on the runtime PM resume path giving a kernel
splat like this if the device has no interrupts:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
address 00000001 when read

PC is at bmc150_accel_set_interrupt+0x98/0x194
LR is at __pm_runtime_resume+0x5c/0x64
(...)
Call trace:
bmc150_accel_set_interrupt from bmc150_accel_buffer_postenable+0x40/0x108
bmc150_accel_buffer_postenable from __iio_update_buffers+0xbe0/0xcbc
__iio_update_buffers from enable_store+0x84/0xc8
enable_store from kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x154/0x1b4

This bug seems to have been in the driver since the beginning,
but it only manifests recently, I do not know why.

Store the IRQ number in the state struct, as this is a common
pattern in other drivers, then use this to determine if we have
IRQ support or not.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Auto-generated summary

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-68330 has been found in Kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade Kernel to 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Kernel CVE-2025-68330" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-68330 (Kernel)
Patched: 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11 — 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.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Kernel.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Kernel.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

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

1
Identify 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。
2
Apply patch patch
```
Upgrade Kernel to 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11
```
ステージング環境で 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11 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。
3
Post-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

Linux Kernel

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.2.0"},{"fixed":"5.15.197"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"6.1.159"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.2.0"},{"fixed":"6.6.119"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.7.0"},{"fixed":"6.12.61"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"6.13.0"},{"fixed":"6.17.11"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2025-68330 linux-lts Fixed in: 6.1.159-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68330 linux
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68330 linux