staging: most: remove broken i2c driver
Priority LOW 22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: most: remove broken i2c driver The MOST I2C driver has been completely broken for five years without anyone noticing so remove the driver from staging. Specifically, commit 723de0f9171e ("staging: most: remove device from interface structure") started requiring drivers to set the interface device pointer before registration, but the I2C driver was never updated which results in a NULL pointer dereference if anyone ever tries to probe it.
Why it matters now
EPSS 0.0022 12th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Linux (Linux): 6.1.191, 6.6.120, 6.12.114 +3
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.120, 6.12.114, 6.17.13, 6.18.2, 6.19
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-68755
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7g54-f344-23m9
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/Linux@10d50bc913b69fa18a5c6fbf293c7a87962e22ef, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@f4cb61138482dd0b7ba551037b61f5e50a889604 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4cb61138482dd0b7ba551037b61f5e50a889604
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cbba922934805f86eece6ba7010b7201962695d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10d50bc913b69fa18a5c6fbf293c7a87962e22ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6059a66dba7f26b21852831432e17075f1a1c783
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e463548fd80e779efea1cb2d3049b8a7231e6925
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/495df2da6944477d282d5cc0c13174d06e25b310
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Sources
- CVE-2025-68755 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-68755 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7g54-f344-23m9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-68755 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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