What is CVE-2025-68181?

CVE-2025-68181 is a High severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10, affecting Linux kernel versions from 6.12 onward and patched in 6.12.58, 6.17.8 and 6.18. CVE-2025-68181 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2025-68181?

CVE-2025-68181 has a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10, rated High severity. The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2025-68181?

Yes, CVE-2025-68181 has been patched. Fixed versions include 6.12.58, 6.17.8 and 6.18. If you are running Linux kernel 6.12 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.

Is CVE-2025-68181 actively exploited?

CVE-2025-68181 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2025-68181

High

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/radeon: Remove calls to drm_put_dev() Since the allocation of the drivers main structure was changed to devm_drm_dev_alloc() drm_put_dev()'ing to trigger it to be free'd should be done by devres. However, drm_put_dev() is still in the probe error and device remove paths. When the driver fails to probe warnings like the following are shown because devres is trying to drm_put_dev() after the driver already did it. [ 5.642230] radeon 0000:01:05.0: probe with driver radeon failed with error -22 [ 5.649605] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5.649607] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. [ 5.649620] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 357 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xbe/0x110 (cherry picked from commit 3eb8c0b4c091da0a623ade0d3ee7aa4a93df1ea4)

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2025-12-16

Last modified 2026-07-30

CVSS version 3.1

Patch available

Yes

CVSS 3.1 score

7.8

out of 10

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Vector string

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected versions

Linux kernel versions 6.12 and later are affected. Fixed in 6.12.58, 6.17.8, 6.18 and their respective stable series.

Affected from

≥ 6.12

Fixed in

✓ 6.12.58 6.12.x ✓ 6.17.8 6.17.x ✓ 6.18

References

3 total

Details

CVE ID CVE-2025-68181

Severity High

CVSS score 7.8 / 10

CVSS version 3.1

Published 2025-12-16

Modified 2026-07-30

KEV No

Patch

Yes

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68181?

CVE-2025-68181 is a High severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10 . It affects Linux kernel versions from 6.12 onward and has been patched in 6.12.58, 6.17.8 and 6.18. CVE-2025-68181 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2025-68181?

CVE-2025-68181 has a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10, rated High severity (CVSS 3.1). The vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2025-68181?

Yes. CVE-2025-68181 has been patched. Fixed versions include 6.12.58, 6.17.8 and 6.18. If you are running Linux kernel 6.12 or later up to the fix versions, apply the relevant patch for your kernel branch.
Is CVE-2025-68181 actively exploited?

No. CVE-2025-68181 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.