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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68312" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-16T15:39:43.174Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-16T16:26:09.604Z" 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-2025-68312" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68312.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68312" title: "usbnet: Prevents free active kevent" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusbnet: Prevents free active kevent\n\nThe root cause of this issue are:\n1. When probing the usbnet device, executing usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0);\nput the kevent work in global workqueue. However, the kevent has not yet\nbeen scheduled when the usbnet device is unregistered. Therefore, executing\nfree_netdev() results in the \"free active object (kevent)\" error reported\nhere.\n\n2. Another factor is that when calling usbnet_disconnect()-\u003eunregister_netdev(),\nif the usbnet device is up, ndo_stop() is executed to cancel the kevent.\nHowever, because the device is not up, ndo_stop() is not executed.\n\nThe solution to this problem is to cancel the kevent before executing\nfree_netdev()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8b4588b8b00b299be16a35be67b331d8fdba03f3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"285d4b953f2ca03c358f986718dd89ee9bde632e"},{"version":"135199a2edd459d2b123144efcd7f9bcd95128e4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88a38b135d69f5db9024ff6527232f1b51be8915"},{"version":"635fd8953e4309b54ca6a81bed1d4a87668694f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43005002b60ef3424719ecda16d124714b45da3b"},{"version":"a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a10619fdefd3051aeb14860e4d4335529b4e94d"},{"version":"a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a579d6a39513069d298eee70770bbac8a148565"},{"version":"a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ce1de32e05445d77fc056f6ff8339cfb78a5f84"},{"version":"a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5158fb8da162e3982940f30cd01ed77bdf42c6fc"},{"version":"a69e617e533edddf3fa3123149900f36e0a6dc74","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"420c84c330d1688b8c764479e5738bbdbf0a33de"},{"version":"d2d6b530d89b0a912148018027386aa049f0a309","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e2a521a7dcc463c5017b4426ca0804e151faeff7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7f77dcbc030c2faa6d8e8a594985eeb34018409e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d49bb8cf9bfaa06aa527eb30f1a52a071da2e32f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"db3b738ae5f726204876f4303c49cfdf4311403f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.211","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.302"},{"version":"5.10.137","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.247"},{"version":"5.15.61","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.197"},{"version":"4.9.326","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.291","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.256","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.18.18","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.19.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"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":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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