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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37905" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37905.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37905" 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-\u003ep 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()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"91ff1e9652fb9beb0174267d6bb38243dff211bb"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ff4273d47da81b95ed9396110bcbd1b7b7470fe8"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2fbf6c9695ad9f05e7e5c166bf43fac7cb3276b3"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"969d8beaa2e374387bf9aa5602ef84fc50bb48d8"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8a8a3547d5c4960da053df49c75bf623827a25da"},{"version":"d4f9dddd21f39395c62ea12d3d91239637d4805f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.182","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.138","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","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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