{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-37905","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:23.966Z","datePublished":"2025-05-20T15:21:38.890Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:17:22.704Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:17:22.704Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices\n\nUsing device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy\ncauses an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an\nimplicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided\nrelease methods upon devices destruction.\n\nAs a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon\ndestruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the\ndrivers subsystem core.\n\nKMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver\ncauses related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any\ndevice_release method.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512):\n  comm \"insmod\", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff  ........`6......\n  backtrace (crc 114e2eed):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8\n    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398\n    device_add+0x954/0x12d0\n    device_register+0x28/0x40\n    __scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380\n    scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390\n    scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8\n    scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8\n    notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0\n    blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0\n    scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0\n    0xffff80000a3b3038\n    do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730\n    do_init_module+0x1dc/0x640\n    load_module+0x4b20/0x5b70\n    init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158\n\n$ ./scripts/faddr2line ./vmlinux device_add+0x954/0x12d0\ndevice_add+0x954/0x12d0:\nkmalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:901\n(inlined by) kzalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:1037\n(inlined by) device_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3510\n(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3561\n\nBalance device refcount by issuing a put_device() on devices found via\ndevice_find_child()."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c"],"versions":[{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"91ff1e9652fb9beb0174267d6bb38243dff211bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"ff4273d47da81b95ed9396110bcbd1b7b7470fe8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"2fbf6c9695ad9f05e7e5c166bf43fac7cb3276b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"969d8beaa2e374387bf9aa5602ef84fc50bb48d8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"8a8a3547d5c4960da053df49c75bf623827a25da","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","lessThan":"9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15.182","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.1.138","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.6.90","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.12.28","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.14.6","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"5.15.182"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"6.1.138"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"6.6.90"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"6.12.28"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"6.14.6"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.13","versionEndExcluding":"6.15"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91ff1e9652fb9beb0174267d6bb38243dff211bb"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff4273d47da81b95ed9396110bcbd1b7b7470fe8"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fbf6c9695ad9f05e7e5c166bf43fac7cb3276b3"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/969d8beaa2e374387bf9aa5602ef84fc50bb48d8"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a8a3547d5c4960da053df49c75bf623827a25da"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599"}],"title":"firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}},"adp":[{"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html"}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","shortName":"CVE","dateUpdated":"2025-11-03T19:57:09.443Z"}}]}}