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FKIE_CVE-2025-68249

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-16 15:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:58

Severity

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization The early error path in hdm_probe() can jump to err_free_mdev before &mdev->dev has been initialized with device_initialize(). Calling put_device(&mdev->dev) there triggers a device core WARN and ends up invoking kref_put(&kobj->kref, kobject_release) on an uninitialized kobject. In this path the private struct was only kmalloc'ed and the intended release is effectively kfree(mdev) anyway, so free it directly instead of calling put_device() on an uninitialized device. This removes the WARNING and fixes the pre-initialization error path.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3509c748e79435d09e730673c8c100b7f0ebc87c
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4af0eedbdb4df7936bf43a28e31af232744d2620
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb8fbc0aa542af5bf0fed94fa6b0edf18144f95
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d851f746067b8ee5bac9c262f326ace0a6ea253
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8cc9e5fcb0e2eef21513a4fec888f5712cb8162
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad2be44882716dc3589fbc5572cc13f88ead6b24
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c400410fe0580dd6118ae8d60287ac9ce71a65fd

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2025-68249 (GCVE-0-2025-68249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:49

Title

most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3509c748e79435d09…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad2be44882716dc35…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c400410fe0580dd61…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fb8fbc0aa542af5b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d851f746067b8ee5…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4af0eedbdb4df7936…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8cc9e5fcb0e2eef2…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 3509c748e79435d09e730673c8c100b7f0ebc87c (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < ad2be44882716dc3589fbc5572cc13f88ead6b24 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < c400410fe0580dd6118ae8d60287ac9ce71a65fd (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 6fb8fbc0aa542af5bf0fed94fa6b0edf18144f95 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 7d851f746067b8ee5bac9c262f326ace0a6ea253 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 4af0eedbdb4df7936bf43a28e31af232744d2620 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < a8cc9e5fcb0e2eef21513a4fec888f5712cb8162 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.9 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.196 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.158 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.115 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.56 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2025-68249 (GCVE-0-2025-68249)

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