Improper Synchronization Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [6.9,6.12.114)[6.13,6.17.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20700879
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed16 Dec 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-68319  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-662  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.12.114, 6.17.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Synchronization due to improper locking when iterating over the cg_children list in the configfs subsystem. An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering concurrent add or remove operations on userdata items while other operations are iterating over the same list, potentially resulting in infinite loops or inconsistent state.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1