CVE-2025-68798
lowCVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 89% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/amd: Check event before enable to avoid GPF
On AMD machines cpuc->events[idx] can become NULL in a subtle race
condition with NMI->throttle->x86_pmu_stop().
Check event for NULL in amd_pmu_enable_all() before enable to avoid a GPF.
This appears to be an AMD only issue.
Syzkaller reported a GPF in amd_pmu_enable_all.
INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 13.143
msecs
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
0xdffffc0000000034: 0000 PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001a0-0x00000000000001a7]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 328415 Comm: repro_36674776 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc1-syzk
RIP: 0010:x86_pmu_enable_event (arch/x86/events/perf_event.h:1195
arch/x86/events/core.c:1430)
RSP: 0018:ffff888118009d60 EFLAGS: 00010012
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000034 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000001a0
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: ffff88811802a440 R14: ffff88811802a240 R15: ffff8881132d8601
FS: 00007f097dfaa700(0000) GS:ffff888118000000(0000) GS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000200001c0 CR3: 0000000103d56000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
amd_pmu_enable_all (arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:760 (discriminator 2))
x86_pmu_enable (arch/x86/events/core.c:1360)
event_sched_out (kernel/events/core.c:1191 kernel/events/core.c:1186
kernel/events/core.c:2346)
__perf_remove_from_context (kernel/events/core.c:2435)
event_function (kernel/events/core.c:259)
remote_function (kernel/events/core.c:92 (discriminator 1)
kernel/events/core.c:72 (discriminator 1))
__flush_smp_call_function_queue (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27
./include/linux/jump_label.h:207 ./include/trace/events/csd.h:64
kernel/smp.c:135 kernel/smp.c:540)
__sysvec_call_function_single (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27
./include/linux/jump_label.h:207
./arch/x86/include/asm/trace/irq_vectors.h:99 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:272)
sysvec_call_function_single (arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47)
arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:266 (discriminator 47))
</IRQ>
CWE
CWE-367Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9