CVE-2025-68345: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_hda_read_acpi()

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-68345DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68345
Published 24-12-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-68345 is a vulnerability in linux with no CVSS score yet. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% 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
0.23%
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 37 · Related 35
DLA-4476-1DSA-6126-1DSA-6127-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10039-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1

Timeline

  1. 24-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cs35l41_hda_read_acpi() The acpi_get_first_physical_node() function can return NULL, in which case the get_device() function also returns NULL, but this value is then dereferenced without checking,so add a check to prevent a crash. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

CVSS metrics

Risk metrics not yet published.

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

14%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.23% 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.

Ubuntu145 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-110.110 | < 6.17.0-19.19
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1052.55 | < 6.17.0-1009.9
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.162-1 | < 6.12.69-1 | < 6.17.13-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < e63f9c81ca28b06eeeac3630faddc50717897351 | ≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < 7a35a505d76a4b6cd426b59ff2d800d0394cc5d3 | ≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < e6ba921b17797ccc545d80e0dbccb5fab91c248c | ≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < c28946b7409b7b68fb0481ec738c8b04578b11c6 | ≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < 343fa9800cf9870ec681e21f0a6f2157b74ae520 | ≥ 7b2f3eb492dac7665c75df067e4d8e4869589f4a, < c34b04cc6178f33c08331568c7fd25c5b9a39f66 | 5.17

3 vendors · 147 products

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