{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68189 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68189 is a high-severity 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-2025-68189 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68189 is a high-severity 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-2025-68189 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-2025-68189/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68189/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68189","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68189/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68189","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-68189","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68189","GHSA-2f2j-g35j-24qp","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68189"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel DRM driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel MSM DRM driver causes a system crash when freeing imported DMA buffers.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/msm: Fix GEM free for imported dma-bufs\n\nImported dma-bufs also have obj-\u003eresv != \u0026obj-\u003e_resv.  So we should\ncheck both this condition in addition to flags for handling the\n_NO_SHARE case.\n\nFixes this splat that was reported with IRIS video playback:\n\n    ------------[ cut here ]------------\n    WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2040 at drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gem.c:1127 msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm]\n    CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 2040 Comm: .gnome-shell-wr Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7 #1 PREEMPT\n    pstate: 81400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n    pc : msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm]\n    lr : msm_gem_free_object+0x138/0x264 [msm]\n    sp : ffff800092a1bb30\n    x29: ffff800092a1bb80 x28: ffff800092a1bce8 x27: ffffbc702dbdbe08\n    x26: 0000000000000008 x25: 0000000000000009 x24: 00000000000000a6\n    x23: ffff00083c72f850 x22: ffff00083c72f868 x21: ffff00087e69f200\n    x20: ffff00087e69f330 x19: ffff00084d157ae0 x18: 0000000000000000\n    x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffbc704bd46b80 x15: 0000ffffd0959540\n    x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000\n    x11: ffffbc702e6cdb48 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 000000000000003f\n    x8 : ffff800092a1ba90 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000020\n    x5 : ffffbc704bd46c40 x4 : fffffdffe102cf60 x3 : 0000000000400032\n    x2 : 0000000000020000 x1 : ffff00087e6978e8 x0 : ffff00087e6977e8\n    Call trace:\n     msm_gem_free_object+0x1f8/0x264 [msm] (P)\n     drm_gem_object_free+0x1c/0x30 [drm]\n     drm_gem_object_handle_put_unlocked+0x138/0x150 [drm]\n     drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x5c/0xcc [drm]\n     drm_gem_handle_delete+0x68/0xbc [drm]\n     drm_gem_close_ioctl+0x34/0x40 [drm]\n     drm_ioctl_kernel+0xc0/0x130 [drm]\n     drm_ioctl+0x360/0x4e0 [drm]\n     __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x104\n     invoke_syscall+0x48/0x104\n     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0\n     do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28\n     el0_svc+0x34/0xec\n     el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4\n     el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c\n    ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n    ------------[ cut here ]------------\n\nPatchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/676273/","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":"drm/msm: Fix GEM free for imported dma-bufs","id":"CVE-2025-68189","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"drm/amdgpu/atom: Check kcalloc() for WS buffer in amdgpu_atom_execute_table_locked()","id":"CVE-2025-68190"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"tcp: use dst_dev_rcu() in tcp_fastopen_active_disable_ofo_check()","id":"CVE-2025-68188"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel MSM DRM driver causes a system crash when freeing imported DMA buffers.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68189/"}