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CVE-2025-38235

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
06/07/2025
Last modified:
18/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting<br /> <br /> During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device<br /> by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a<br /> device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and<br /> upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device<br /> and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released<br /> leading to a reference leak.<br /> <br /> Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal<br /> via put_device and on probe failure.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 6.15 (including) 6.15.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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