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CVE-2025-38137

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-07-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI/pwrctrl: Cancel outstanding rescan work when unregistering It's possible to trigger use-after-free here by: (a) forcing rescan_work_func() to take a long time and (b) utilizing a pwrctrl driver that may be unloaded for some reason Cancel outstanding work to ensure it is finished before we allow our data structures to be cleaned up. [bhelgaas: tidy commit log]

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References