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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-37805" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-08T06:26:05.084Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:15:29.189Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z" 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-2025-37805" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37805.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37805" title: "sound/virtio: Fix cancel_sync warnings on uninitialized work_structs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsound/virtio: Fix cancel_sync warnings on uninitialized work_structs\n\nBetty reported hitting the following warning:\n\n[ 8.709131][ T221] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 221 at kernel/workqueue.c:4182\n...\n[ 8.713282][ T221] Call trace:\n[ 8.713365][ T221] __flush_work+0x8d0/0x914\n[ 8.713468][ T221] __cancel_work_sync+0xac/0xfc\n[ 8.713570][ T221] cancel_work_sync+0x24/0x34\n[ 8.713667][ T221] virtsnd_remove+0xa8/0xf8 [virtio_snd ab15f34d0dd772f6d11327e08a81d46dc9c36276]\n[ 8.713868][ T221] virtsnd_probe+0x48c/0x664 [virtio_snd ab15f34d0dd772f6d11327e08a81d46dc9c36276]\n[ 8.714035][ T221] virtio_dev_probe+0x28c/0x390\n[ 8.714139][ T221] really_probe+0x1bc/0x4c8\n...\n\nIt seems we're hitting the error path in virtsnd_probe(), which\ntriggers a virtsnd_remove() which iterates over the substreams\ncalling cancel_work_sync() on the elapsed_period work_struct.\n\nLooking at the code, from earlier in:\nvirtsnd_probe()-\u003evirtsnd_build_devs()-\u003evirtsnd_pcm_parse_cfg()\n\nWe set snd-\u003ensubstreams, allocate the snd-\u003esubstreams, and if\nwe then hit an error on the info allocation or something in\nvirtsnd_ctl_query_info() fails, we will exit without having\ninitialized the elapsed_period work_struct.\n\nWhen that error path unwinds we then call virtsnd_remove()\nwhich as long as the substreams array is allocated, will iterate\nthrough calling cancel_work_sync() on the uninitialized work\nstruct hitting this warning.\n\nTakashi Iwai suggested this fix, which initializes the substreams\nstructure right after allocation, so that if we hit the error\npaths we avoid trying to cleanup uninitialized data.\n\nNote: I have not yet managed to reproduce the issue myself, so\nthis patch has had limited testing.\n\nFeedback or thoughts would be appreciated!" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e03b10c45c7675b6098190c6e7de1b656d8bcdbe"},{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54c7b864fbe4423a07b443a4ada0106052942116"},{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5be9407b41eae20eef9140f5cfbfcbc3d01aaf45"},{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66046b586c0aaa9332483bcdbd76e3305d6138e9"},{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9908498ce929a5a052b79bb7942f9ea317312ce4"},{"version":"29b96bf50ba958eb5f097cdc3fbd4c1acf9547a2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c7df2e27346eb40a0e86230db1ccab195c97cfe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.89","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.26","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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