CVE-2026-68092: time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20% (FIRST EPSS).
- Fixed version: Linux Linux 6.12.97, 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaa, cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325fe.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 6.12.97, 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaa, cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325fe or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage Teddy reported that a XEN HVM has a long boot delay, which was bisected to the recent enhancements to the negative motion detection. It turned out that the jiffies clocksource is used in early boot before it is registered, which leaves the max_delta_raw field at zero. That causes the read out to be clamped to the max delta of 0, which means time is not making progress. Cure it by ensuring that it is initialized before its first usage in timekeeping_init().
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 11th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
0
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 0 / 40 · —
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Linux Linux
- 6.13affected
- 1a678f6829a8c931fae2b62e4c88dae743c839c9 and later · before fe9bdea65ba231fcfb155031628bb1e8491b5fe0affected · git
- 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 and later · before cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325feaffected · git
- 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 and later · before 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaaaffected · git
- 76031d9536a076bf023bedbdb1b4317fc801dd67 and later · before f24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752affected · git
- 6.12.5 and later · before 6.12.97affected · semver
- before 6.13not affected · semver
- 6.12.97 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
- 6.18.39 and later · up to and including 6.18.*not affected · semver
- 7.1.4 and later · up to and including 7.1.*not affected · semver
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:13 | linux | before 6.12.100-1 | 6.12.100-1 |
| Debian:14 | linux | before 7.1.4-1 | 7.1.4-1 |
Same product
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-68089Aug 10, 2026 · iio: core: fix uninitialized data in debugfs0Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-68090Aug 10, 2026 · debugobjects: Plug race against a concurrent OOM disable0Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-68093Aug 10, 2026 · KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug0Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 6.12.97 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | 75b478096c6bbf57fe366f7f0a8cd5365043ffaa | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | cd25e9819620aa1325897912cfb4dd89303325fe | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | f24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Linux Linux | fe9bdea65ba231fcfb155031628bb1e8491b5fe0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| debian:linux | 6.12.100-1 · Debian:13 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-26-0800 · Aug 11, 2026(Linux Kernel Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
No CVSS vector for this record, so attack conditions can't be derived.
Weakness class (CWE)
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Attack context
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Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.