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    "id": "CVE-2025-38168",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38168",
    "idYear": 2025,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2025-07-03T08:36:07.620Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T21:52:10.296Z",
    "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"
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    "facts": {
      "title": "perf: arm-ni: Unregister PMUs on probe failure",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf: arm-ni: Unregister PMUs on probe failure\n\nWhen a resource allocation fails in one clock domain of an NI device,\nwe need to properly roll back all previously registered perf PMUs in\nother clock domains of the same device.\n\nOtherwise, it can lead to kernel panics.\n\nCalling arm_ni_init+0x0/0xff8 [arm_ni] @ 2374\narm-ni ARMHCB70:00: Failed to request PMU region 0x1f3c13000\narm-ni ARMHCB70:00: probe with driver arm-ni failed with error -16\nlist_add corruption: next->prev should be prev (fffffd01e9698a18),\nbut was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff10001a0decc8).\npstate: 6340009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8\nlr : list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8\nCall trace:\n __list_add_valid_or_report+0x7c/0xb8\n perf_pmu_register+0x22c/0x3a0\n arm_ni_probe+0x554/0x70c [arm_ni]\n platform_probe+0x70/0xe8\n really_probe+0xc6/0x4d8\n driver_probe_device+0x48/0x170\n __driver_attach+0x8e/0x1c0\n bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0xf0\n driver_add+0x138/0x260\n bus_add_driver+0x68/0x138\n __platform_driver_register+0x2c/0x40\n arm_ni_init+0x14/0x2a [arm_ni]\n do_init_module+0x36/0x298\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\nKernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception\nSMP: stopping secondary CPUs",
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          "vendor": "Linux",
          "product": "Linux",
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              "version": "0",
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              "version": "6.12.34",
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              "version": "6.16",
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