CVE-2025-68235 Affecting kernel-default-base package, versions <6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (7th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDEFAULTBASE-15242560
  • published6 Feb 2026
  • disclosed2 Feb 2026

Introduced: 2 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-68235  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-default-base to version 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-base package and not the kernel-default-base package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

nouveau/firmware: Add missing kfree() of nvkm_falcon_fw::boot

nvkm_falcon_fw::boot is allocated, but no one frees it. This causes a kmemleak warning.

Make sure this data is deallocated.

CVSS Base Scores

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