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Echo: linux: security update to 6.12.63-1

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 455526

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix sleeping in atomic
 context The following warning was seen when we try to connect using ssh to the device. BUG: sleeping
 function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:575 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0,
 non_block: 0, pid: 104, name: dropbear preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 INFO: lockdep is turned off. CPU: 0
 UID: 0 PID: 104 Comm: dropbear Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc2-00399-g6f1ab1b109b9-dirty #530 NONE Tainted:
 [W]=WARN Hardware name: Generic DT based system Call trace: unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14
 show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x7c/0xac dump_stack_lvl from __might_resched+0x16c/0x2b0 __might_resched
 from __mutex_lock+0x64/0xd34 __mutex_lock from mutex_lock_nested+0x1c/0x24 mutex_lock_nested from
 lan966x_stats_get+0x5c/0x558 lan966x_stats_get from dev_get_stats+0x40/0x43c dev_get_stats from
 dev_seq_printf_stats+0x3c/0x184 dev_seq_printf_stats from dev_seq_show+0x10/0x30 dev_seq_show from
 seq_read_iter+0x350/0x4ec seq_read_iter from seq_read+0xfc/0x194 seq_read from proc_reg_read+0xac/0x100
 proc_reg_read from vfs_read+0xb0/0x2b0 vfs_read from ksys_read+0x6c/0xec ksys_read from
 ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x1c Exception stack(0xf0b11fa8 to 0xf0b11ff0) 1fa0: 00000001 00001000 00000008
 be9048d8 00001000 00000001 1fc0: 00000001 00001000 00000008 00000003 be905920 0000001e 00000000 00000001
 1fe0: 0005404c be9048c0 00018684 b6ec2cd8 It seems that we are using a mutex in a atomic context which is
 wrong. Change the mutex with a spinlock. (CVE-2025-68320)

Solution

Update the linux library and its related packages to version 6.12.63-1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2025-68320

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 455526

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68320

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/17/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68320