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Tracker / CVE-2025-71233

CVE-2025-71233

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the work completes. The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands: # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test # for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088 ... Call Trace: configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190 pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110 process_one_work+0x18f/0x350 worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0 Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require the delayed work handler. [mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 5.12 → 5.15.201
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.164
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.11
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.1
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.127
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.72

Analysis

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