{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2025-71158", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-01-13T15:30:19.665Z", "datePublished": "2026-01-23T15:23:57.016Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:12:24.125Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T12:12:24.125Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: mpsse: ensure worker is torn down\n\nWhen an IRQ worker is running, unplugging the device would cause a\ncrash. The sealevel hardware this driver was written for was not\nhotpluggable, so I never realized it.\n\nThis change uses a spinlock to protect a list of workers, which\nit tears down on disconnect." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - A local caller with write access to the USB device node can issue USBDEVFS_IOCTL containing USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT, which synchronously reaches gpio_mpsse_disconnect(); physical unplugging is an additional path.\nAC:L - The attacker can arm edge detection through GPIO_V2_GET_LINE_IOCTL and then initiate software disconnect, controlling both sides of the race. The continuously running polling worker makes repeated triggering practical.\nPR:L - Neither the GPIO request nor USBFS disconnect path performs a capable() or ns_capable() check; access is governed only by device-node DAC/LSM policy, so a basic user granted device access suffices.\nUI:N - No victim action is required after the attacker arms the worker and disconnects the interface, and deployed controller services may already keep GPIO edge IRQs continuously active.\nS:U - The vulnerable worker and affected resources are within the same host-kernel security authority, with no VM, IOMMU, or other security-boundary crossing.\nC:H - The worker can continue dereferencing a devm-freed mpsse_priv containing kernel pointers and synchronization objects, allowing attacker-influenced reclaimed contents to support kernel-memory disclosure.\nI:H - The use-after-free performs operations through reclaimed pointers and mutexes, while the reclaimed gpio.ngpio value controls loops over fixed 16-entry stack arrays, making arbitrary corruption and control-flow hijacking defensible.\nA:H - The documented outcome is a kernel crash on disconnect, reachable through immediate NULL dereferences or subsequent use-after-free accesses by the unterminated worker." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpio/gpio-mpsse.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "c46a74ff05c0ac76ba11ef21c930c3b447abf31a", "lessThan": "472d900c8bcac301ae0e40fdca7db799bd989ff5", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "c46a74ff05c0ac76ba11ef21c930c3b447abf31a", "lessThan": "179ef1127d7a4f09f0e741fa9f30b8a8e7886271", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/gpio/gpio-mpsse.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "6.13", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "6.13", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.18.6", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "6.19", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.13", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.6" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.13", "versionEndExcluding": "6.19" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/472d900c8bcac301ae0e40fdca7db799bd989ff5" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/179ef1127d7a4f09f0e741fa9f30b8a8e7886271" } ], "title": "gpio: mpsse: ensure worker is torn down", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }