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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68367" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:32:54.084Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:51:50.117Z" 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-2025-68367" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68367.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68367" title: "macintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmacintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse\n\nThe following warning appears when running syzkaller, and this issue also\nexists in the mainline code.\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n list_add double add: new=ffffffffa57eee28, prev=ffffffffa57eee28, next=ffffffffa5e63100.\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1491 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: syz.1.28 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #3\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130\n RSP: 0018:ff1100010dfb7b78 EFLAGS: 00010282\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa57eee18 RCX: ffffffff97fc9817\n RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: ffa0000002383000 RDI: 0000000000000001\n RBP: ffffffffa57eee28 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffe21c0021bf6f2c\n R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 6464615f7473696c R12: ffffffffa5e63100\n R13: ffffffffa57eee28 R14: ffffffffa57eee28 R15: ff1100010dfb7d48\n FS: 00007fb14398b640(0000) GS:ff11000119600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010d096005 CR4: 0000000000773ef0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n PKRU: 80000000\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n input_register_handler+0xb3/0x210\n mac_hid_start_emulation+0x1c5/0x290\n mac_hid_toggle_emumouse+0x20a/0x240\n proc_sys_call_handler+0x4c2/0x6e0\n new_sync_write+0x1b1/0x2d0\n vfs_write+0x709/0x950\n ksys_write+0x12a/0x250\n do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2\n\nThe WARNING occurs when two processes concurrently write to the mac-hid\nemulation sysctl, causing a race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse().\nBoth processes read old_val=0, then both try to register the input handler,\nleading to a double list_add of the same handler.\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ------------------------- -------------------------\n vfs_write() //write 1 vfs_write() //write 1\n proc_sys_write() proc_sys_write()\n mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse()\n old_val = *valp // old_val=0\n old_val = *valp // old_val=0\n mutex_lock_killable()\n proc_dointvec() // *valp=1\n mac_hid_start_emulation()\n input_register_handler()\n mutex_unlock()\n mutex_lock_killable()\n proc_dointvec()\n mac_hid_start_emulation()\n input_register_handler() //Trigger Warning\n mutex_unlock()\n\nFix this by moving the old_val read inside the mutex lock region." affected: 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