# CVE-2025-68312: usbnet: Prevents free active kevent

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 4.10, 4.15, and 3 more
- Published: 2025-12-16 · Updated: 2026-06-16

## Affected

- Linux: from 5.4.211, fixed in 5.4.302; from 5.10.137, fixed in 5.10.247; from 5.15.61, fixed in 5.15.197; from 4.9.326, fixed in 4.10; from 4.14.291, fixed in 4.15; from 4.19.256, fixed in 4.20; from 5.18.18, fixed in 5.19; from 5.19.2, fixed in 5.20
- Linux: 6.0

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usbnet: Prevents free active kevent The root cause of this issue are: 1. When probing the usbnet device, executing usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0); put the kevent work in global workqueue. However, the kevent has not yet been scheduled when the usbnet device is unregistered. Therefore, executing free_netdev() results in the "free active object (kevent)" error reported here. 2. Another factor is that when calling usbnet_disconnect()->unregister_netdev(), if the usbnet device is up, ndo_stop() is executed to cancel the kevent. However, because the device is not up, ndo_stop() is not executed. The solution to this problem is to cancel the kevent before executing free_netdev().

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (5.4.302, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 4.10, 4.15) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/285d4b953f2ca03c358f986718dd89ee9bde632e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88a38b135d69f5db9024ff6527232f1b51be8915
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43005002b60ef3424719ecda16d124714b45da3b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a10619fdefd3051aeb14860e4d4335529b4e94d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a579d6a39513069d298eee70770bbac8a148565
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ce1de32e05445d77fc056f6ff8339cfb78a5f84
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5158fb8da162e3982940f30cd01ed77bdf42c6fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/420c84c330d1688b8c764479e5738bbdbf0a33de

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