CVE-2025-38137
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
03/07/2025
Last modified:
03/07/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
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PCI/pwrctrl: Cancel outstanding rescan work when unregistering<br />
<br />
It&#39;s possible to trigger use-after-free here by:<br />
<br />
(a) forcing rescan_work_func() to take a long time and<br />
(b) utilizing a pwrctrl driver that may be unloaded for some reason<br />
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Cancel outstanding work to ensure it is finished before we allow our data<br />
structures to be cleaned up.<br />
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[bhelgaas: tidy commit log]