{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68798 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68798 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. 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-2025-68798 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68798 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 13 Jan 2026. 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-2025-68798 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-2025-68798/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68798/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68798","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68798/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68798","record":{"aliases":["AZL-74357","BELL-CVE-2025-68798","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68798","GHSA-v753-hw9q-p9vj","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-68798","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-68798","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68798"],"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 race condition in the Linux kernel's AMD perf subsystem causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"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\nperf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF\n\nOn AMD machines cpuc-\u003eevents[idx] can become NULL in a subtle race\ncondition with NMI-\u003ethrottle-\u003ex86_pmu_stop().\n\nCheck event for NULL in amd_pmu_enable_all() before enable to avoid a GPF.\nThis appears to be an AMD only issue.\n\nSyzkaller reported a GPF in amd_pmu_enable_all.\n\nINFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 13.143\n    msecs\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n    0xdffffc0000000034: 0000  PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001a0-0x00000000000001a7]\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 328415 Comm: repro_36674776 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzk\nRIP: 0010:x86_pmu_enable_event (arch/x86/events/perf_event.h:1195\n    arch/x86/events/core.c:1430)\nRSP: 0018:ffff888118009d60 EFLAGS: 00010012\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001a0\nRBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002\nR13: ffff88811802a440 R14: ffff88811802a240 R15: ffff8881132d8601\nFS:  00007f097dfaa700(0000) GS:ffff888118000000(0000) GS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00000000200001c0 CR3: 0000000103d56000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\namd_pmu_enable_all (arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:760 (discriminator 2))\nx86_pmu_enable (arch/x86/events/core.c:1360)\nevent_sched_out (kernel/events/core.c:1191 kernel/events/core.c:1186\n    kernel/events/core.c:2346)\n__perf_remove_from_context (kernel/events/core.c:2435)\nevent_function (kernel/events/core.c:259)\nremote_function (kernel/events/core.c:92 (discriminator 1)\n    kernel/events/core.c:72 (discriminator 1))\n__flush_smp_call_function_queue (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27\n    ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/csd.h:64\n    kernel/smp.c:135 kernel/smp.c:540)\n__sysvec_call_function_single (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27\n    ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207\n    ./arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:99 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:272)\nsysvec_call_function_single (arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47)\n    arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47))\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e","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":"perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF","id":"CVE-2025-68798","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"caif: fix integer underflow in cffrml_receive()","id":"CVE-2025-68799"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"char: applicom: fix NULL pointer dereference in ac_ioctl","id":"CVE-2025-68797"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-01-13","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":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel's AMD perf subsystem causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68798/"}