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CVE-2025-68781 json

usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal

published 2026-01-13 9 mo ago modified 2026-09-02 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-2329

cvss
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not scored
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal

The delayed work item otg_event is initialized in fsl_otg_conf() and scheduled under two conditions: 1. When a host controller binds to the OTG controller. 2. When the USB ID pin state changes (cable insertion/removal).

A race condition occurs when the device is removed via fsl_otg_remove(): the fsl_otg instance may be freed while the delayed work is still pending or executing. This leads to use-after-free when the work function fsl_otg_event() accesses the already freed memory.

The problematic scenario:

(detach thread) | (delayed work) fsl_otg_remove() | kfree(fsl_otg_dev) //FREE| fsl_otg_event() | og = container_of(...) //USE | og-> //USE

Fix this by calling disable_delayed_work_sync() in fsl_otg_remove() before deallocating the fsl_otg structure. This ensures the delayed work is properly canceled and completes execution prior to memory deallocation.

This bug was identified through static analysis.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.12.64, 6.18.3, 6.19
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.69-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.18.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68781

  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-22.22
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1012.12
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1012.12
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1013.13
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1013.13
  • linux-riscv Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-22.22.1
  • linux-oracle Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1011.11
  • linux-aws-6.17 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.17.0-1012.12~24.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68781

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68781 updated

kernel: usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal

  • 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 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not 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

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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