CVE-2025-68235 Affecting kernel-source 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
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELSOURCE-15242545
  • published6 Feb 2026
  • disclosed2 Feb 2026

Introduced: 2 Feb 2026

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-source to version 6.12.0-160000.9.1 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: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

version 3.1