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CVE-2025-68228: drm/plane: Fix create_in_format_blob() return value

• Severity: unknown
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-16 · updated 2026-10-14

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/plane: Fix create_in_format_blob() return value create_in_format_blob() is either supposed to return a valid pointer or an error, but never NULL. The caller will dereference the blob when it is not an error, and thus will oops if NULL returned. Return proper error values in the failure cases.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 6.16 — fixed in 6.18

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.18. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/860f93f4fce1e733b8a2474f6bfa153243d775f3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cead55e24cf9e092890cf51c0548eccd7569defa

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