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ghsa-487h-mjh3-324w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-07 09:30

Modified

2025-10-29 21:30

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-07 09:09

Modified

2025-05-04 07:22

Severity ?

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56e6976793c0fcf1638aa534242408ab4e4ca705
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28e4c515cf644c621800bd97841757fd49891ba4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ace20038e19f23fe73259513f1f08d4bf1a3c83

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2
Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2
Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2

Version: 6.12

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