# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68333"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-22T16:14:11.081Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:51:09.677Z"
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-2025-68333"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68333.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68333"
title: "sched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched_ext: Fix possible deadlock in the deferred_irq_workfn()\n\nFor PREEMPT_RT=y kernels, the deferred_irq_workfn() is executed in\nthe per-cpu irq_work/* task context and not disable-irq, if the rq\nreturned by container_of() is current CPU's rq, the following scenarios\nmay occur:\n\nlock(&rq-\u003e__lock);\n\u003cInterrupt\u003e\n  lock(&rq-\u003e__lock);\n\nThis commit use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD() to replace init_irq_work() to\ninitialize rq-\u003escx.deferred_irq_work, make the deferred_irq_workfn()\nis always invoked in hard-irq context."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5b26f7b920f76b2b9cc398c252a9e35e44bf5bb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"541959b2fadb832a7d0ceb95041dc52bdcf6bff7"},{"version":"5b26f7b920f76b2b9cc398c252a9e35e44bf5bb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"600b4379b9a7ba41340d652211fb29699da4c629"},{"version":"5b26f7b920f76b2b9cc398c252a9e35e44bf5bb9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a257e974210320ede524f340ffe16bf4bf0dda1e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.68","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.12","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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