# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-22031"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:11:51.264Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:11:18.142Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22031"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22031.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22031"
title: "PCI/bwctrl: Fix NULL pointer dereference on bus number exhaustion"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI/bwctrl: Fix NULL pointer dereference on bus number exhaustion\n\nWhen BIOS neglects to assign bus numbers to PCI bridges, the kernel\nattempts to correct that during PCI device enumeration.  If it runs out\nof bus numbers, no pci_bus is allocated and the \"subordinate\" pointer in\nthe bridge's pci_dev remains NULL.\n\nThe PCIe bandwidth controller erroneously does not check for a NULL\nsubordinate pointer and dereferences it on probe.\n\nBandwidth control of unusable devices below the bridge is of questionable\nutility, so simply error out instead.  This mirrors what PCIe hotplug does\nsince commit 62e4492c3063 (\"PCI: Prevent NULL dereference during pciehp\nprobe\").\n\nThe PCI core emits a message with KERN_INFO severity if it has run out of\nbus numbers.  PCIe hotplug emits an additional message with KERN_ERR\nseverity to inform the user that hotplug functionality is disabled at the\nbridge.  A similar message for bandwidth control does not seem merited,\ngiven that its only purpose so far is to expose an up-to-date link speed\nin sysfs and throttle the link speed on certain laptops with limited\nThermal Design Power.  So error out silently.\n\nUser-visible messages:\n\n  pci 0000:16:02.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring\n  [...]\n  pci_bus 0000:45: busn_res: [bus 45-74] end is updated to 74\n  pci 0000:16:02.0: devices behind bridge are unusable because [bus 45-74] cannot be assigned for them\n  [...]\n  pcieport 0000:16:02.0: pciehp: Hotplug bridge without secondary bus, ignoring\n  [...]\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference\n  RIP: pcie_update_link_speed\n  pcie_bwnotif_enable\n  pcie_bwnotif_probe\n  pcie_port_probe_service\n  really_probe"
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