CVE-2025-68238 Affecting kernel-source package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.84.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-KERNELSOURCE-15110764
  • published27 Jan 2026
  • disclosed26 Jan 2026

Introduced: 26 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-68238  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 kernel-source to version 6.4.0-150600.23.84.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-source package and not the kernel-source package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

mtd: rawnand: cadence: fix DMA device NULL pointer dereference

The DMA device pointer dma_dev was being dereferenced before ensuring that cdns_ctrl-&gt;dmac is properly initialized.

Move the assignment of dma_dev after successfully acquiring the DMA channel to ensure the pointer is valid before use.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1