CVE-2025-68804

platform/chrome: cros_ec_ishtp: Fix UAF after unbinding driver

EPSS 0.2%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

13 Jan 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/chrome: cros_ec_ishtp: Fix UAF after unbinding driver After unbinding the driver, another kthread `cros_ec_console_log_work` is still accessing the device, resulting an UAF and crash. The driver doesn't unregister the EC device in .remove() which should shutdown sub-devices synchronously. Fix it.

Affected products

Linux · Linux

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24a2062257bbdfc831de5ed21c27b04b5bdf2437 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27037916db38e6b78a0242031d3b93d997b84020 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/393b8f9bedc7806acb9c47cefdbdb223b4b6164b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4701493ba37654b3c38b526f6591cf0b02aa172f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8dc1f5a85286290dbf04dd5951d020570f49779b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/944edca81e7aea15f83cf9a13a6ab67f711e8abd https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1da6e399df976dd04c7c73ec008bc81da368a95