CVE-2025-40005
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.9.0-6.6.124, 6.7.0-6.16.9 - Denial of Service via Forced Device Unbind During SPI Operation
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy driver support indirect read and indirect write operation with assumption no force device removal(unbind) operation. However force device removal(removal) is still available to root superuser. Unbinding driver during operation causes kernel crash. This changes ensure driver able to handle such operation for indirect read and indirect write by implementing refcount to track attached devices to the controller and gracefully wait and until attached devices remove operation completed before proceed with removal operation.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
8.3%
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 (23)
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.167linux
linux/Kernel
5.9.0 - 5.15.209linux
linux/Kernel
5.9.0 - 6.6.125linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.16.10linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.125linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.78linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.16.10linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.9
Linux/Linux
5.15.209 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.9
... and 13 more
Published
Oct 20, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026