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CVE-2025-68755 (GCVE-0-2025-68755)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-05 09:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:52
VLAI
Title
staging: most: remove broken i2c driver
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: most: remove broken i2c driver The MOST I2C driver has been completely broken for five years without anyone noticing so remove the driver from staging. Specifically, commit 723de0f9171e ("staging: most: remove device from interface structure") started requiring drivers to set the interface device pointer before registration, but the I2C driver was never updated which results in a NULL pointer dereference if anyone ever tries to probe it.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 6cbba922934805f86eece6ba7010b7201962695d (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 6059a66dba7f26b21852831432e17075f1a1c783 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < e463548fd80e779efea1cb2d3049b8a7231e6925 (git)
Affected: 723de0f9171eeb49a3ae98cae82ebbbb992b3a7c , < 495df2da6944477d282d5cc0c13174d06e25b310 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (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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