CVE-2025-38137 (GCVE-0-2025-38137)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-03 08:35
Modified
2025-07-28 04:13
Severity ?
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]
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b926f237743f020518162c62b93cb7107a2b5eb
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3ad6d23fec23fbef382ce9ea640c37446593cf5
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Linux Linux Version: 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce
Version: 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce
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