CVE-2025-68753 Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-15244571
  • published6 Feb 2026
  • disclosed2 Feb 2026

Introduced: 2 Feb 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.9.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html 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:

ALSA: firewire-motu: add bounds check in put_user loop for DSP events

In the DSP event handling code, a put_user() loop copies event data. When the user buffer size is not aligned to 4 bytes, it could overwrite beyond the buffer boundary.

Fix by adding a bounds check before put_user().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1