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Tracker / CVE-2025-37968

CVE-2025-37968

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.3 → 5.4.299
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.192
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.151
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.243
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.14.7
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.105
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.30

Analysis

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