CVE-2025-37968

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access The threaded IRQ function in this driver is reading the flag twice: once to lock a mutex and once to unlock it. Even though the code setting the flag is designed to prevent it, there are subtle cases where the flag could be true at the mutex_lock stage and false at the mutex_unlock stage. This results in the mutex not being unlocked, resulting in a deadlock. Fix it by making the opt3001_irq() code generally more robust, reading the flag into a variable and using the variable value at both stages.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 25.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (10)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 4.3.0 - 5.4.299linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.192linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.151linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.243linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.7linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.105linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.30linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 rc1 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 4.3 - 5.4.299
Published May 20, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026