CVE-2025-68250
Linux Kernel 6.16-6.17.5 - Denial of Service via Unaligned Lock Pointer Handling
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hung_task: fix warnings caused by unaligned lock pointers The blocker tracking mechanism assumes that lock pointers are at least 4-byte aligned to use their lower bits for type encoding. However, as reported by Eero Tamminen, some architectures like m68k only guarantee 2-byte alignment of 32-bit values. This breaks the assumption and causes two related WARN_ON_ONCE checks to trigger. To fix this, the runtime checks are adjusted to silently ignore any lock that is not 4-byte aligned, effectively disabling the feature in such cases and avoiding the related warnings. Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven for bisecting!
References (2)
Core 2
Scores
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
7.8%
Details
Status
published
Products (7)
linux/Kernel
6.16.0 - 6.17.6linux
Linux/Linux
< 6.16
Linux/Linux
6.16
Linux/Linux
6.17.6 - 6.17.*
Linux/Linux
6.18
Linux/Linux
e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - c0e2dcbe54cb15ecdf9d8f4501c6720423243888
Linux/Linux
e711faaafbe54a884f33b53472434063d342f6d4 - c97513cddcfc235f2522617980838e500af21d01
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026