CVE-2025-37836

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: Fix reference leak in pci_register_host_bridge() If device_register() fails, call put_device() 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]

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.12.25-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.12.25-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.12.25-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.237-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.137-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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