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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68798" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:08.329Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:10:15.720Z" 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-2025-68798" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68798.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68798" title: "perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF\n\nOn AMD machines cpuc-\u003eevents[idx] can become NULL in a subtle race\ncondition with NMI-\u003ethrottle-\u003ex86_pmu_stop().\n\nCheck event for NULL in amd_pmu_enable_all() before enable to avoid a GPF.\nThis appears to be an AMD only issue.\n\nSyzkaller reported a GPF in amd_pmu_enable_all.\n\nINFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 13.143\n msecs\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdffffc0000000034: 0000 PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001a0-0x00000000000001a7]\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 328415 Comm: repro_36674776 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzk\nRIP: 0010:x86_pmu_enable_event (arch/x86/events/perf_event.h:1195\n arch/x86/events/core.c:1430)\nRSP: 0018:ffff888118009d60 EFLAGS: 00010012\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001a0\nRBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002\nR13: ffff88811802a440 R14: ffff88811802a240 R15: ffff8881132d8601\nFS: 00007f097dfaa700(0000) GS:ffff888118000000(0000) GS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00000000200001c0 CR3: 0000000103d56000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\namd_pmu_enable_all (arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:760 (discriminator 2))\nx86_pmu_enable (arch/x86/events/core.c:1360)\nevent_sched_out (kernel/events/core.c:1191 kernel/events/core.c:1186\n kernel/events/core.c:2346)\n__perf_remove_from_context (kernel/events/core.c:2435)\nevent_function (kernel/events/core.c:259)\nremote_function (kernel/events/core.c:92 (discriminator 1)\n kernel/events/core.c:72 (discriminator 1))\n__flush_smp_call_function_queue (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27\n ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/csd.h:64\n kernel/smp.c:135 kernel/smp.c:540)\n__sysvec_call_function_single (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27\n ./include/linux/jump_label.h:207\n ./arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:99 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:272)\nsysvec_call_function_single (arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47)\n arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47))\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ada543459cab7f653dcacdaba4011a8bb19c627c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"49324a0c40f7e9bae1bd0362d23fc42232e14621"},{"version":"ada543459cab7f653dcacdaba4011a8bb19c627c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e41d9ec8d7cc3f01b9ba785e05f0ebef8b3b37f"},{"version":"ada543459cab7f653dcacdaba4011a8bb19c627c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e1028fb38b328084bc683a4efb001c95d3108573"},{"version":"ada543459cab7f653dcacdaba4011a8bb19c627c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43c2e5c2acaae50e99d1c20a5a46e367c442fb3b"},{"version":"ada543459cab7f653dcacdaba4011a8bb19c627c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"866cf36bfee4fba6a492d2dcc5133f857e3446b0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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