CVE-2025-38235

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.15-6.15.4 - Reference Count Leak in HID appletb-kbd Backlight Device Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.4%
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 (9)
linux/Kernel 6.15.0 - 6.15.5linux
Linux/Linux < 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15
Linux/Linux 6.15.5 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783 - 4540e41e753a7d69ecd3f5bad51fe620205c3a18
Linux/Linux 93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783 - 751d5437112a3f387de4ef6d2d1c131068ff7627
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 - 6.15.5
Published Jul 06, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026