{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68173 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68173 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68173 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68173 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68173 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68173/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68173/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68173","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68173/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68173","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-68173","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68173","GHSA-6j5g-jv8m-99rc","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-68173","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-68173","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-68173","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-68173","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68173","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68173"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel panic and system denial of service by loading a kernel module with many traceable functions.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable\n\nA soft lockup was observed when loading amdgpu module.\nIf a module has a lot of tracable functions, multiple calls\nto kallsyms_lookup can spend too much time in RCU critical\nsection and with disabled preemption, causing kernel panic.\nThis is the same issue that was fixed in\ncommit d0b24b4e91fc (\"ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY\nkernels\") and commit 42ea22e754ba (\"ftrace: Add cond_resched() to\nftrace_graph_set_hash()\").\n\nFix it the same way by adding cond_resched() in ftrace_module_enable.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable","id":"CVE-2025-68173","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"amd/amdkfd: enhance kfd process check in switch partition","id":"CVE-2025-68174"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"crypto: aspeed - fix double free caused by devm","id":"CVE-2025-68172"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a kernel panic and system denial of service by loading a kernel module with many traceable functions.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68173/"}