CVE-2025-37836

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37836
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-37836.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-37836
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-05-09T06:41:47.341Z
Modified
2026-03-11T07:45:00.666332Z
Summary
PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge()
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

PCI: Fix reference leak in pciregisterhost_bridge()

If deviceregister() fails, call putdevice() to give up the reference to avoid a memory leak, per the comment at device_register().

Found by code review.

[bhelgaas: squash Dan Carpenter's double free fix from https://lore.kernel.org/r/db806a6c-a91b-4e5a-a84b-6b7e01bdac85@stanley.mountain]

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/37xxx/CVE-2025-37836.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
37d6a0a6f4700ad3ae7bbf8db38b4557e97b3fe4
Fixed
f4db1b2c9ae3d013733c302ee70cac943b7070c0
Fixed
3297497ad2246eb9243849bfbbc57a0dea97d76e
Fixed
b783478e0c53ffb4f04f25fb4e21ef7f482b05df
Fixed
bd2a352a0d72575f1842d28c14c10089f0cfe1ae
Fixed
9707d0c932f41006a2701afc926b232b50e356b4
Fixed
bbba4c50a2d2a1d3f3bf31cc4b8280cb492bf2c7
Fixed
f9208aec86226524ec1cb68a09ac70e974ea6536
Fixed
804443c1f27883926de94c849d91f5b7d7d696e9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-37836.json"