CVE-2025-68732 json
gpu: host1x: Fix race in syncpt alloc/free
published 2025-12-24 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-13 27 d ago also EUVD-2025-205065
- 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 9%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpu: host1x: Fix race in syncpt alloc/free
Fix race condition between host1x_syncpt_alloc() and host1x_syncpt_put() by using kref_put_mutex() instead of kref_put() + manual mutex locking.
This ensures no thread can acquire the syncpt_mutex after the refcount drops to zero but before syncpt_release acquires it. This prevents races where syncpoints could be allocated while still being cleaned up from a previous release.
Remove explicit mutex locking in syncpt_release as kref_put_mutex() handles this atomically.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.63, 6.17.13, 6.18.2, 6.19
- linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.63-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.13-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68732
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
- 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 6.8.0-1052.55
- 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 6.8.0-1054.57
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68732
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- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
- kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:0617-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1SUSE-SU-2026:0411-1
- kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10039-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca9388fba50dac2eb71c13702b7022a801bef90e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aeaece518fa4436af93d1d8b786200d9656ff4b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6245cce711e2cdb2cc75c0bb8632952e36f8c972 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e6e07ce0197aecfb6c4a62862acc93b3efedeb7 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d138f73ffb0c57ded473c577719e6e551b7b1f27 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/79197c6007f2afbfd7bcf5b9b80ccabf8483d774 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7d393267c497502fa737607f435f05dfe6e3d9b 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-2025-68732 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service in GPU host1x due to race condition
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelaffected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more 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 morenot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ca9388fba50dac2eb71c13702b7022a801bef90e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4aeaece518fa4436af93d1d8b786200d9656ff4b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/6245cce711e2cdb2cc75c0bb8632952e36f8c972
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4e6e07ce0197aecfb6c4a62862acc93b3efedeb7
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d138f73ffb0c57ded473c577719e6e551b7b1f27
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/79197c6007f2afbfd7bcf5b9b80ccabf8483d774
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/c7d393267c497502fa737607f435f05dfe6e3d9b
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-68732
- NVD CVE-2025-68732
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