High 7.8Published Jul 3, 2025

CVE-2025-38137PCI/pwrctrl: Cancel outstanding rescan work when unregistering

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-22 00:23 UTC)

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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]

CVSS: 7.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 21, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce before a63ed775f476ba81558bba24d7538836e1ffb823; from 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce before b3ad6d23fec23fbef382ce9ea640c37446593cf5; 8f62819aaace77dd85037ae766eb767f8c4417ce builds before 8b926f237743f020518162c62b93cb7107a2b5eb	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.11.1 before 6.15.3; 6.11; 6.11	NVD

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a63ed775f476ba81558bba24d7538836e1ffb823
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3ad6d23fec23fbef382ce9ea640c37446593cf5patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b926f237743f020518162c62b93cb7107a2b5ebpatch

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