CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-37836

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2025-05-09
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: PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge() If device_register() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference to avoid a memory leak, per the comment at device_register(). Found by code review. [bhelgaas: squash Dan Carpenter's double free fix from https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 5.10.237) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.181) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.136) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.89) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.24) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.3) • debian debian linux 11.0

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3297497ad2246eb9243849bfbbc57a0dea97d76e Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/804443c1f27883926de94c849d91f5b7d7d696e9 Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9707d0c932f41006a2701afc926b232b50e356b4 Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b783478e0c53ffb4f04f25fb4e21ef7f482b05df Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbba4c50a2d2a1d3f3bf31cc4b8280cb492bf2c7 Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd2a352a0d72575f1842d28c14c10089f0cfe1ae Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4db1b2c9ae3d013733c302ee70cac943b7070c0 Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9208aec86226524ec1cb68a09ac70e974ea6536 Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory