CVE-2025-68808

NameCVE-2025-68808
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: vidtv: initialize local pointers upon transfer of memory ownership vidtv_channel_si_init() creates a temporary list (program, service, event) and ownership of the memory itself is transferred to the PAT/SDT/EIT tables through vidtv_psi_pat_program_assign(), vidtv_psi_sdt_service_assign(), vidtv_psi_eit_event_assign(). The problem here is that the local pointer where the memory ownership transfer was completed is not initialized to NULL. This causes the vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry() function to fail, and in the flow that jumps to free_eit, the memory that was freed by vidtv_psi_*_table_destroy() can be accessed again by vidtv_psi_*_event_destroy() due to the uninitialized local pointer, so it is freed once again. Therefore, to prevent use-after-free and double-free vulnerability, local pointers must be initialized to NULL when transferring memory ownership.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-4475-1, DLA-4476-1, DSA-6126-1, DSA-6127-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bullseye5.10.223-1vulnerable
bullseye (security)5.10.249-1fixed
bookworm6.1.159-1vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.162-1fixed
trixie6.12.63-1vulnerable
trixie (security)6.12.73-1fixed
forky, sid6.18.12-1fixed
linux-6.1 (PTS)bullseye (security)6.1.162-1~deb11u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebullseye5.10.249-1DLA-4475-1
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.162-1DSA-6127-1
linuxsourcetrixie6.12.69-1DSA-6126-1
linuxsource(unstable)6.18.3-1
linux-6.1sourcebullseye6.1.162-1~deb11u1DLA-4476-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/98aabfe2d79f74613abc2b0b1cef08f97eaf5322 (6.19-rc1)

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