CVE-2025-68338 | net: dsa: microchip: Don't free uninitialized ksz_irq

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: dsa: microchip: Don't free uninitialized ksz_irq If something goes wrong at setup, ksz_irq_free() can be called on uninitialized ksz_irq (for example when ksz_ptp_irq_setup() fails). It leads to freeing uninitialized IRQ numbers and/or domains. Use dsa_switch_for_each_user_port_continue_reverse() in the error path to iterate only over the fully initialized ports.

Published: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-68338 is rated Low Risk (3.1/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-68338

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-12-24 0.02%

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-68338

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-68338

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-68338

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-68338 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-68338
redhat https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68338
suse medium CVE-2025-68338 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 317 product×package rows across 61 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (61 product lines)): Known Not Affected 317. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68338/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-68338 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 179, released 99, not-affected 79, needed 38. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-68338

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-68338

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References for CVE-2025-68338

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