CVE-2025-38235 — Linux vulnerability
5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.33%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 6
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting
During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device
by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name 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
leadi…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783 — 751d5437112a3f387de4ef6d2d1c131068ff7627+2
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2025-38235: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting Duri↗2025-07-06
GHSA▶
GHSA-xfhg-wvc5-5xpc: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting
Du↗2025-07-06