CVE-2025-68320: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-68320 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 0% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 29 · Related 27Timeline
- 16-12-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 30-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic context The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: Generic DT based system Call trace: unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0 __might_resched from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34 __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24 mutex_lock_nested from lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558 lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c dev_get_stats from dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184 dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30 dev_seq_show from seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194 seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100 proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0 vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec ksys_read from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0) 1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 be9048d8 00001000 00000001 1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001 1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8 It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is wrong. Change the mutex with a spinlock.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.41%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
36%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.41% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other 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
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.12.63-1 | < 6.17.8-1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007, < cabb8cbeab49f4b74d78a91a277e00d4f6dd5d7d | ≥ 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007, < 5a5d2f7727752b64d13263eacd9f8d08a322e662 | ≥ 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007, < c8ab03aa5bd9fd8bfe5d9552d8605826759fdd4d | ≥ 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007, < 3ac743c60ec502163c435712d527eeced8d83348 | ≥ 12c2d0a5b8e2a1afc8c7738e19a0d1dd7f3d4007, < 0216721ce71252f60d89af49c8dff613358058d3 | 5.17
3 vendors · 129 products
