CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-37968
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-05-20
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access
The threaded IRQ function in this driver is reading the flag twice: once to
lock a mutex and once to unlock it. Even though the code setting the flag
is designed to prevent it, there are subtle cases where the flag could be
true at the mutex_lock stage and false at the mutex_unlock stage. This
results in the mutex not being unlocked, resulting in a deadlock.
Fix it by making the opt3001_irq() code generally more robust, reading the
flag into a variable and using the variable value at both stages.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.3 < 5.4.299)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.243)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.192)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.151)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.105)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d7def97e7eb65865ccc01bbdf4eb9e6bbe8a5b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c95c8f0959d0a72575eabf2ff888f47ed6d8b77 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/748ebd8e61d0bc182c331b8df3887af7285c8a8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ca84f6a22d50bf8b31efe9eb05f9859947266d7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/957e8be112636d9bc692917286e81e54bd87decc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9c56ccb7cddfca754291fb24b108a5350a5fbe9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e791bf216c9e236b34dabf514ec0ede140cca719 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f063a28002e3350088b4577c5640882bf4ea17ea Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com