CVE-2025-68207 (GCVE-0-2025-68207)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:48 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:10
VLAI
Title
drm/xe/guc: Synchronize Dead CT worker with unbind
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/guc: Synchronize Dead CT worker with unbind Cancel and wait for any Dead CT worker to complete before continuing with device unbinding. Else the worker will end up using resources freed by the undind operation. (cherry picked from commit 492671339114e376aaa38626d637a2751cdef263)
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ff6482fb458953e111a82b7c537363d9aacf04bf , < 35959ab7d16b618616edf6df882a4533d2efe193 (git)
Affected: d2c5a5a926f43b2e42c5c955f917bad8ad6dd68c , < ce6ccf8e881a919bf902174ac879f80c97669498 (git)
Affected: d2c5a5a926f43b2e42c5c955f917bad8ad6dd68c , < 95af8f4fdce8349a5fe75264007f1af2aa1082ea (git)
Affected: 6.12.37 , < 6.12.59 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.59 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.9 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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