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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68220" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T13:57:14.142Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:49:02.647Z" 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-2025-68220" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68220.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68220" title: "net: ethernet: ti: netcp: Standardize knav_dma_open_channel to return NULL on error" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: ti: netcp: Standardize knav_dma_open_channel to return NULL on error\n\nMake knav_dma_open_channel consistently return NULL on error instead\nof ERR_PTR. Currently the header include/linux/soc/ti/knav_dma.h\nreturns NULL when the driver is disabled, but the driver\nimplementation does not even return NULL or ERR_PTR on failure,\ncausing inconsistency in the users. This results in a crash in\nnetcp_free_navigator_resources as followed (trimmed):\n\nUnhandled fault: alignment exception (0x221) at 0xfffffff2\n[fffffff2] *pgd=80000800207003, *pmd=82ffda003, *pte=00000000\nInternal error: : 221 [#1] SMP ARM\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc7 #1 NONE\nHardware name: Keystone\nPC is at knav_dma_close_channel+0x30/0x19c\nLR is at netcp_free_navigator_resources+0x2c/0x28c\n\n[... TRIM...]\n\nCall trace:\n knav_dma_close_channel from netcp_free_navigator_resources+0x2c/0x28c\n netcp_free_navigator_resources from netcp_ndo_open+0x430/0x46c\n netcp_ndo_open from __dev_open+0x114/0x29c\n __dev_open from __dev_change_flags+0x190/0x208\n __dev_change_flags from netif_change_flags+0x1c/0x58\n netif_change_flags from dev_change_flags+0x38/0xa0\n dev_change_flags from ip_auto_config+0x2c4/0x11f0\n ip_auto_config from do_one_initcall+0x58/0x200\n do_one_initcall from kernel_init_freeable+0x1cc/0x238\n kernel_init_freeable from kernel_init+0x1c/0x12c\n kernel_init from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38\n[... TRIM...]\n\nStandardize the error handling by making the function return NULL on\nall error conditions. The API is used in just the netcp_core.c so the\nimpact is limited.\n\nNote, this change, in effect reverts commit 5b6cb43b4d62 (\"net:\nethernet: ti: netcp_core: return error while dma channel open issue\"),\nbut provides a less error prone implementation." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af6b10a13fc0aee37df4a8292414cc055c263fa3"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8427218ecbd7f8559c37972e66cb0fa06e82353b"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3afeb909c3e2e0eb19b1e20506196e5f2d9c2259"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2572c358ee434ce4b994472cceeb4043cbff5bc5"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"952637c5b9be64539cd0e13ef88db71a1df46373"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbb53727ca789a8d27052aab4b77ca9e2a0fae2b"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f9608637ecc165d7d6341df105aee44691461fb9"},{"version":"88139ed030583557751e279968e13e892ae10825","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90a88306eb874fe4bbdd860e6c9787f5bbc588b5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"5.4.302","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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