CVE-2025-23144 Affecting linux-virt package, versions <6.12.25-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRT-13861161
  • published8 Nov 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2025

Introduced: 1 May 2025

CVE-2025-23144  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt to version 6.12.25-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt package and not the linux-virt package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

backlight: led_bl: Hold led_access lock when calling led_sysfs_disable()

Lockdep detects the following issue on led-backlight removal: [ 142.315935] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 142.315954] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 292 at drivers/leds/led-core.c:455 led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 ... [ 142.500725] Call trace: [ 142.503176] led_sysfs_enable+0x54/0x80 (P) [ 142.507370] led_bl_remove+0x80/0xa8 [led_bl] [ 142.511742] platform_remove+0x30/0x58 [ 142.515501] device_remove+0x54/0x90 ...

Indeed, led_sysfs_enable() has to be called with the led_access lock held.

Hold the lock when calling led_sysfs_disable().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1