CVE-2025-37836

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

09/05/2025

Last modified:

14/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge() If device_register() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference to avoid a memory leak, per the comment at device_register(). Found by code review. [bhelgaas: squash Dan Carpenter&#39;s double free fix from https://lore.kernel.org/r/db806a6c-a91b-4e5a-a84b-6b7e01bdac85@stanley.mountain]

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	5.10.237 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.181 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.136 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.89 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.12.24 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.13 (including)	6.13.12 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.14 (including)	6.14.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2025-37836

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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