CVE-2025-38235
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 6.15-6.15.4 - Reference Count Leak in HID appletb-kbd Backlight Device Handling
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (2)
Core 2
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