vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-37836: kernel: PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | May 9, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 9, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 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's double free fix from
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]]
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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