CVE-2025-37836

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak in PCI Host Bridge Registration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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]]

References (10)

Core 10
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (27)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 4.10.0 - 5.10.237linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.181linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.136linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.12linux
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.89linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.24linux
Linux/Linux < 4.10
Linux/Linux 37d6a0a6f4700ad3ae7bbf8db38b4557e97b3fe4 - 3297497ad2246eb9243849bfbbc57a0dea97d76e
... and 17 more
Published May 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026