CVE-2025-21841 (GCVE-0-2025-21841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-07 09:09 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:22
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Title
cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix cpufreq_policy ref counting
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix cpufreq_policy ref counting amd_pstate_update_limits() takes a cpufreq_policy reference but doesn't decrement the refcount in one of the exit paths, fix that.
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Linux Linux Affected: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2 , < 56e6976793c0fcf1638aa534242408ab4e4ca705 (git)
Affected: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2 , < 28e4c515cf644c621800bd97841757fd49891ba4 (git)
Affected: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2 , < 3ace20038e19f23fe73259513f1f08d4bf1a3c83 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.16 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.4 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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