CVE-2025-68370 (GCVE-0-2025-68370)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:32 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:11
VLAI
Title
coresight: tmc: add the handle of the event to the path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: coresight: tmc: add the handle of the event to the path The handle is essential for retrieving the AUX_EVENT of each CPU and is required in perf mode. It has been added to the coresight_path so that dependent devices can access it from the path when needed. The existing bug can be reproduced with: perf record -e cs_etm//k -C 0-9 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null Showing an oops as follows: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000f6e84934ed19e Call trace: tmc_etr_get_buffer+0x30/0x80 [coresight_tmc] (P) catu_enable_hw+0xbc/0x3d0 [coresight_catu] catu_enable+0x70/0xe0 [coresight_catu] coresight_enable_path+0xb0/0x258 [coresight]
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6653 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 080ee83cc361451a7de7b5486c7f96ce454f7203 , < faa8f38f7ccb344ace2c1f364efc70e3a12d32f3 (git)
Affected: 080ee83cc361451a7de7b5486c7f96ce454f7203 , < d0c9effd82f2c19b92acd07d357fac5f392d549a (git)
Affected: 080ee83cc361451a7de7b5486c7f96ce454f7203 , < aaa5abcc9d44d2c8484f779ab46d242d774cabcb (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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