CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-23144

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-05-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable() Lockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal: [ 142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 ... [ 142.500725] Call trace: [ 142.503176] led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P) [ 142.507370] led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl] [ 142.511742] platform_remove+0x30/0x58 [ 142.515501] device_remove+0x54/0x90 ... Indeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access lock held. Hold the lock when calling led_sysfs_disable().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.6.1 < 5.10.237) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.181) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.136) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.88) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.24) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.3) • linux linux kernel 5.6 • debian debian linux 11.0

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