CVE-2025-38137 (GCVE-0-2025-38137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-03 08:35 – Updated: 2025-07-28 04:13
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Title
PCI/pwrctrl: Cancel outstanding rescan work when unregistering
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI/pwrctrl: Cancel outstanding rescan work when unregistering It's possible to trigger use-after-free here by: (a) forcing rescan_work_func() to take a long time and (b) utilizing a pwrctrl driver that may be unloaded for some reason Cancel outstanding work to ensure it is finished before we allow our data structures to be cleaned up. [bhelgaas: tidy commit log]
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Linux Linux Affected: 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce , < b3ad6d23fec23fbef382ce9ea640c37446593cf5 (git)
Affected: 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce , < 8b926f237743f020518162c62b93cb7107a2b5eb (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.3 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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