CVE-2025-68755

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.

CVSS

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References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-01-05 10:15

Updated : 2026-06-17 09:59

NVD link : CVE-2025-68755

Mitre link : CVE-2025-68755

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-68755

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Products Affected

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CWE

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