# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68197"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:43:23.269Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:48:32.536Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68197"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68197.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68197"
title: "bnxt_en: Fix null pointer dereference in bnxt_bs_trace_check_wrap()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbnxt_en: Fix null pointer dereference in bnxt_bs_trace_check_wrap()\n\nWith older FW, we may get the ASYNC_EVENT_CMPL_EVENT_ID_DBG_BUF_PRODUCER\nfor FW trace data type that has not been initialized.  This will result\nin a crash in bnxt_bs_trace_type_wrap().  Add a guard to check for a\nvalid magic_byte pointer before proceeding."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"84fcd9449fd7882ddfb05ba64d75f9be2d29b2e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"689ae5ba31293eebb7f21c0ef8939468ac72b5ce"},{"version":"84fcd9449fd7882ddfb05ba64d75f9be2d29b2e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff02be05f78399c766be68ab0b2285ff90b2aaa8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.17.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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