CVE-2025-68194EPSS p10.5%
CVE-2025-68194CVE-2025-68194
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: imon: make send_packet() more robust
syzbot is reporting that imon has three problems which result in
hung tasks due to forever holding device lock [1].
First problem is that when usb_rx_callback_intf0() once got -EPROTO error
after ictx->dev_present_intf0 became true, usb_rx_callback_intf0()
resubmits urb after printk(), and resubmitted urb causes
usb_rx_callback_intf0() to again get -EPROTO error. This results in
printk() flooding (RCU stalls).
Alan Stern commented [2] that
In theory it's okay to resubmit _if_ the driver has a robust
error-recovery scheme (such as giving up after some fixed limit on the
number of errors or after some fixed time has elapsed, perhaps with a
time delay to prevent a flood of errors). Most drivers don't bother to
do this; they simply give up right away. This makes them more
vulnerable to short-term noise interference during USB transfers, but in
reality such in
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.21% probability of exploitation · percentile 10.5% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-14 |