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  "record": {
    "id": "CVE-2025-37905",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37905",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-05-20T15:21:38.890Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T21:17:22.704Z",
    "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"
    },
    "facts": {
      "title": "firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices\n\nUsing device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy\ncauses an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an\nimplicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided\nrelease methods upon devices destruction.\n\nAs a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon\ndestruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the\ndrivers subsystem core.\n\nKMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver\ncauses related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any\ndevice_release method.\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512):\n  comm \"insmod\", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........\n    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff  ........`6......\n  backtrace (crc 114e2eed):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8\n    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398\n    device_add+0x954/0x12d0\n    device_register+0x28/0x40\n    __scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380\n    scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390\n    scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8\n    scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8\n    notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0\n    blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0\n    scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0\n    0xffff80000a3b3038\n    do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730\n    do_init_module+0x1dc/0x640\n    load_module+0x4b20/0x5b70\n    init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158\n\n$ ./scripts/faddr2line ./vmlinux device_add+0x954/0x12d0\ndevice_add+0x954/0x12d0:\nkmalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:901\n(inlined by) kzalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:1037\n(inlined by) device_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3510\n(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3561\n\nBalance device refcount by issuing a put_device() on devices found via\ndevice_find_child().",
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          "vendor": "Linux",
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