# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71233"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-18T14:53:17.926Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:56:54.929Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-71233"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71233.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71233"
title: "PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nPCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously\n\nThe asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a\nNULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the\nwork completes.\n\nThe crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands:\n\n  # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test\n  # for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done\n\n  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088\n  ...\n  Call Trace:\n   configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190\n   pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110\n   process_one_work+0x18f/0x350\n   worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0\n\nFix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not\nhave the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require\nthe delayed work handler.\n\n[mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]"
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