CVE-2025-68229 json
scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show()
published 2025-12-16 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-14 25 d ago also EUVD-2025-203667
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show()
If the allocation of tl_hba->sh fails in tcm_loop_driver_probe() and we attempt to dereference it in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show() we will get a segfault, see below for an example. So, check tl_hba->sh before dereferencing it.
Unable to allocate struct scsi_host BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000194 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 PID: 8356 Comm: tokio-runtime-w Not tainted 6.6.104.2-4.azl3 #1 Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 09/28/2024 RIP: 0010:tcm_loop_tpg_address_show+0x2e/0x50 [tcm_loop] ... Call Trace: <TASK> configfs_read_iter+0x12d/0x1d0 [configfs] vfs_read+0x1b5/0x300 ksys_read+0x6f/0xf0 ...
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.118, 6.12.60, 6.17.10, 6.18
- linux Debian 12 6.1.159-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.63-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.10-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68229
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-19.19
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.110
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1009.9
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.112
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68229
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- git.kernel.org/stable/c/63f511d3855f7f4b35dd63dbc58fc3d935a81268 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d8c517f6eb27e47b1a198e05f8023038329b40b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f449a1edd7a13bb025aaf9342ea6f8bf92684bbf commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9ba455b5073253ceaadae4859546e38e8261fe commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6ef60898ddaf1414592ce3e5b0d94276d631663 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/72e8831079266749a7023618a0de2f289a9dced6 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/13aff3b8a7184281b134698704d6c06863a8361b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6965188f84a7883e6a0d3448e86b0cf29b24dfc commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68229 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: scsi: target: tcm_loop: Fix segfault in tcm_loop_tpg_address_show()
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: workaround, no fix planned “To mitigate this issue, prevent the tcm_loop module from being loaded. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions.”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: workaround, no fix available “To mitigate this issue, prevent the tcm_loop module from being loaded. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for instructions.”
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CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 4 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/63f511d3855f7f4b35dd63dbc58fc3d935a81268
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3d8c517f6eb27e47b1a198e05f8023038329b40b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/f449a1edd7a13bb025aaf9342ea6f8bf92684bbf
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/1c9ba455b5073253ceaadae4859546e38e8261fe
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/a6ef60898ddaf1414592ce3e5b0d94276d631663
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/72e8831079266749a7023618a0de2f289a9dced6
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/13aff3b8a7184281b134698704d6c06863a8361b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e6965188f84a7883e6a0d3448e86b0cf29b24dfc
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-68229
- NVD CVE-2025-68229
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