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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-38235

CVE-2025-38235

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting

During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released leading to a reference leak.

Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal via put_device and on probe failure.

Affected products

7
  • Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue6 versions
    6.15+ 5 more
    • (no CPE)range: 6.15
    • (no CPE)
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.15,<6.15.5
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.15.0, < 6.15.5

Patches

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