CVE-2025-71233
Medium · 5.5CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.1%
Published
Feb 18, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the work completes. The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands: # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test # for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088 ... Call Trace: configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190 pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110 process_one_work+0x18f/0x350 worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0 Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require the delayed work handler. [mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Kernel | 5.12.0 | 5.15.201 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | dtb-aarch64 | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-64kb | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-azure | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1.160000.2.8 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-docs | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-kvmsmall | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-build | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-qa | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-rt | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-source | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-syms | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-zfcpdump | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.27.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | kernel-source | 0 | 6.19.8-1.1 |
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