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High 7.8Published Dec 16, 2025

CVE-2025-68167gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs

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It affects Linux. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking in gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling kzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.

CVSS
7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
Aug 5, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 before 70180a6031056096c93ed2f47c41803268bdd91c; from e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 before 3c91c8f424d3e44c8645ab765a38773e58afb07d; from e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 before 2f6115ad8864cf3f48598f26c74c7c8e5c391919
CNA record

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