CVE-2025-37800 (GCVE-0-2025-37800)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-08 06:26
Modified
2026-08-05 11:57
Severity ?
7.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent() If userspace reads "uevent" device attribute at the same time as another threads unbinds the device from its driver, change to dev->driver from a valid pointer to NULL may result in crash. Fix this by using READ_ONCE() when fetching the pointer, and take bus' drivers klist lock to make sure driver instance will not disappear while we access it. Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting the driver pointer to ensure there is no tearing.
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Linux Linux Version: 16574dccd8f62dc1b585325f8a6a0aab10047ed8
Version: 16574dccd8f62dc1b585325f8a6a0aab10047ed8
Version: 16574dccd8f62dc1b585325f8a6a0aab10047ed8
Version: 16574dccd8f62dc1b585325f8a6a0aab10047ed8
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