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CVE-2025-38235

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CVE-2025-38235

Published: Jul 6, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

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 leading to a reference leak. Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal via put_device and on probe failure.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783 - < 751d5437112a3f387de4ef6d2d1c131068ff7627
affected
93a0fc48948107e0cc34e1de22c3cb363a8f2783 - < 4540e41e753a7d69ecd3f5bad51fe620205c3a18

Linux

Linux

affected
6.15
unaffected
0 - < 6.15
unaffected
6.15.5 - <= 6.15.*
unaffected
6.16 - <= *

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