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CVE-2025-68171: linux

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68171DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68171
Published 16-12-2025Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68171 is a high (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.15%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 30 · Related 27
DLA-4436-1MGASA-2026-0017MGASA-2026-0018OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1SUSE-SU-2026:0447-1SUSE-SU-2026:0472-1

Timeline

  1. 16-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/fpu: Ensure XFD state on signal delivery Sean reported [1] the following splat when running KVM tests: WARNING: CPU: 232 PID: 15391 at xfd_validate_state+0x65/0x70 Call Trace: <TASK> fpu__clear_user_states+0x9c/0x100 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x142/0x210 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x55/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x205/0x2c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 Chao further identified [2] a reproducible scenario involving signal delivery: a non-AMX task is preempted by an AMX-enabled task which modifies the XFD MSR. When the non-AMX task resumes and reloads XSTATE with init values, a warning is triggered due to a mismatch between fpstate::xfd and the CPU's current XFD state. fpu__clear_user_states() does not currently re-synchronize the XFD state after such preemption. Invoke xfd_update_state() which detects and corrects the mismatch if there is a dynamic feature. This also benefits the sigreturn path, as fpu__restore_sig() may call fpu__clear_user_states() when the sigframe is inaccessible. [ dhansen: minor changelog munging ]

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.15%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

4%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.15% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.15%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu142 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1050.53 | < 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.159-1 | < 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.8-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 672365477ae8afca5a1cca98c1deb733235e4525, < eefbfb722042fc9210d2e0ac2b063fd1abf51895 | ≥ 672365477ae8afca5a1cca98c1deb733235e4525, < 1811c610653c0cd21cc9add14595b7cffaeca511 | ≥ 672365477ae8afca5a1cca98c1deb733235e4525, < 5b2619b488f1d08b960c43c6468dd0759e8b3035 | ≥ 672365477ae8afca5a1cca98c1deb733235e4525, < 3f735419c4b43cde42e6d408db39137b82474e31 | ≥ 672365477ae8afca5a1cca98c1deb733235e4525, < 388eff894d6bc5f921e9bfff0e4b0ab2684a96e9 | 5.16

3 vendors · 144 products

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