CVE-2025-38235
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38235
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38235.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38235
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-07-06T09:11:14.930Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-09T23:56:53.885892Z
- Summary
- HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting
During appletbkbdprobe, probe attempts to get the backlight device by name. When this happens backlightdevicegetbyname looks for a device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released leading to a reference leak.
Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal via put_device and on probe failure.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "Linux", "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38235.json" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4540e41e753a7d69ecd3f5bad51fe620205c3a18
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/751d5437112a3f387de4ef6d2d1c131068ff7627
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38235.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38235