CVE-2025-68744 json
bpf: Free special fields when update [lru_,]percpu_hash maps
published 2025-12-24 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-13 27 d ago also EUVD-2025-205218
- 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 8%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Free special fields when update [lru_,]percpu_hash maps
As [lru_,]percpu_hash maps support BPF_KPTR_{REF,PERCPU}, missing calls to 'bpf_obj_free_fields()' in 'pcpu_copy_value()' could cause the memory referenced by BPF_KPTR_{REF,PERCPU} fields to be held until the map gets freed.
Fix this by calling 'bpf_obj_free_fields()' after 'copy_map_value[,_long]()' in 'pcpu_copy_value()'.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.6.120, 6.12.63, 6.17.13, 6.18.2, 6.19
- linux Debian 13 6.12.63-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.13-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68744
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-19.19
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1009.9
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.57
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1009.9
- linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.56
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1051.51
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68744
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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-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1.21.16
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.9.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1SUSE-SU-2026:20207-1SUSE-SU-2026:20220-1
- 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/994d6303ed0b84cbc795bb5becf7ed6de40d3f3c commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf1378747e251571e0de15e7e0a6bf2919044e7 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/96a5cb7072cabbac5c66ac9318242c3bdceebb68 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a03d69cece145e4fb527464be29c3806aa3221e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6af6e49a76c9af7d42eb923703e7648cb2bf401a 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-2025-68744 updated cvss 3.3
kernel: bpf: Free special fields when update [lru_,]percpu_hash maps
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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 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/994d6303ed0b84cbc795bb5becf7ed6de40d3f3c
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3bf1378747e251571e0de15e7e0a6bf2919044e7
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/96a5cb7072cabbac5c66ac9318242c3bdceebb68
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/4a03d69cece145e4fb527464be29c3806aa3221e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/6af6e49a76c9af7d42eb923703e7648cb2bf401a
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-68744
- NVD CVE-2025-68744
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