# 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-2025-68797"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:07.575Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:53:31.417Z"
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-2025-68797"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68797.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68797"
title: "char: applicom: fix NULL pointer dereference in ac_ioctl"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nchar: applicom: fix NULL pointer dereference in ac_ioctl\n\nDiscovered by Atuin - Automated Vulnerability Discovery Engine.\n\nIn ac_ioctl, the validation of IndexCard and the check for a valid\nRamIO pointer are skipped when cmd is 6. However, the function\nunconditionally executes readb(apbs[IndexCard].RamIO + VERS) at the\nend.\n\nIf cmd is 6, IndexCard may reference a board that does not exist\n(where RamIO is NULL), leading to a NULL pointer dereference.\n\nFix this by skipping the readb access when cmd is 6, as this\ncommand is a global information query and does not target a specific\nboard context."
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