{"id":"CVE-2025-68167","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-68167","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T09:26:22.202Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs\n\nIf the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private\nfield remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking\nin gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling\nkzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.","published":"2025-12-16T14:15:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-14T13:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00152,"percentile":0.04339,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.15%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f6115ad8864cf3f48598f26c74c7c8e5c391919","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c91c8f424d3e44c8645ab765a38773e58afb07d","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70180a6031056096c93ed2f47c41803268bdd91c","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68167","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}