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CVE-2025-68367 json

macintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse

published 10mo ago modified 27d ago also EUVD-2025-205087

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epss
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EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

macintosh/mac_hid: fix race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse

The following warning appears when running syzkaller, and this issue also exists in the mainline code.

------------[ cut here ]------------ list_add double add: new=ffffffffa57eee28, prev=ffffffffa57eee28, next=ffffffffa5e63100. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1491 at lib/list_debug.c:35 __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1491 Comm: syz.1.28 Not tainted 6.6.0+ #3 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf7/0x130 RSP: 0018:ff1100010dfb7b78 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffa57eee18 RCX: ffffffff97fc9817 RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: ffa0000002383000 RDI: 0000000000000001 RBP: ffffffffa57eee28 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffe21c0021bf6f2c R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 6464615f7473696c R12: ffffffffa5e63100 R13: ffffffffa57eee28 R14: ffffffffa57eee28 R15: ff1100010dfb7d48 FS: 00007fb14398b640(0000) GS:ff11000119600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010d096005 CR4: 0000000000773ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 80000000 Call Trace: <TASK> input_register_handler+0xb3/0x210 mac_hid_start_emulation+0x1c5/0x290 mac_hid_toggle_emumouse+0x20a/0x240 proc_sys_call_handler+0x4c2/0x6e0 new_sync_write+0x1b1/0x2d0 vfs_write+0x709/0x950 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

The WARNING occurs when two processes concurrently write to the mac-hid emulation sysctl, causing a race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse(). Both processes read old_val=0, then both try to register the input handler, leading to a double list_add of the same handler.

CPU0 CPU1 ------------------------- ------------------------- vfs_write() //write 1 vfs_write() //write 1 proc_sys_write() proc_sys_write() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() mac_hid_toggle_emumouse() old_val = *valp // old_val=0 old_val = *valp // old_val=0 mutex_lock_killable() proc_dointvec() // *valp=1 mac_hid_start_emulation() input_register_handler() mutex_unlock() mutex_lock_killable() proc_dointvec() mac_hid_start_emulation() input_register_handler() //Trigger Warning mutex_unlock()

Fix this by moving the old_val read inside the mutex lock region.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.248, 5.15.198, 6.1.160, 6.6.120, 6.12.63, 6.17.13, 6.18.2, 6.19
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.162-1
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.63-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.17.13-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68367

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-173.183
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-110.110
  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-19.19
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.110
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1009.9
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1103.112
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1054.57

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68367

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1.160000.2.7
  • kernel-syms SLES 16.0, Linux Micro Extras 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:20555-1SUSE-SU-2026:20599-1SUSE-SU-2026:20615-1SUSE-SU-2026:20570-1

  • kernel-source-longterm openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.18.16-1.1
  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.26.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1openSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10039-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68367 updated cvss 5.3

kernel: Linux kernel (macintosh/mac_hid): Denial of Service via race condition in mac_hid_toggle_emumouse

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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