CVE-2025-68172: crypto: aspeed - fix double free caused by devm

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68172DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68172
Published 16-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68172 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
0.20%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 30 · Related 28
MGASA-2026-0017MGASA-2026-0018OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1SUSE-SU-2026:0278-1SUSE-SU-2026:0281-1SUSE-SU-2026:0293-1

Timeline

  1. 16-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: aspeed - fix double free caused by devm The clock obtained via devm_clk_get_enabled() is automatically managed by devres and will be disabled and freed on driver detach. Manually calling clk_disable_unprepare() in error path and remove function causes double free. Remove the manual clock cleanup in both aspeed_acry_probe()'s error path and aspeed_acry_remove().

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.20%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.20% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu127 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-106.106 | < 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 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< 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.8-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 2f1cf4e50c956f882c9fc209c7cded832b67b8a3, < 0dd6474ced33489076e6c0f3fe5077bf12e85b28 | ≥ 2f1cf4e50c956f882c9fc209c7cded832b67b8a3, < 29d0504077044a7e1ffbd09a6118018d5954a6e5 | ≥ 2f1cf4e50c956f882c9fc209c7cded832b67b8a3, < e8407dfd267018f4647ffb061a9bd4a6d7ebacc6 | ≥ 2f1cf4e50c956f882c9fc209c7cded832b67b8a3, < 3c9bf72cc1ced1297b235f9422d62b613a3fdae9 | 6.3

3 vendors · 129 products

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