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CVE-2025-68755: staging: most: remove broken i2c driver

• 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: 2026-01-05 · updated 2026-10-30

Description

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.

Affected products

• Linux: 5.6 — fixed in 6.19

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux 6.19. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10d50bc913b69fa18a5c6fbf293c7a87962e22ef
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/495df2da6944477d282d5cc0c13174d06e25b310
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6059a66dba7f26b21852831432e17075f1a1c783
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cbba922934805f86eece6ba7010b7201962695d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e463548fd80e779efea1cb2d3049b8a7231e6925
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4cb61138482dd0b7ba551037b61f5e50a889604

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