Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 14, 2026· Updated Feb 9, 2026
via_wdt: fix critical boot hang due to unnamed resource allocation
CVE-2025-71114
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
via_wdt: fix critical boot hang due to unnamed resource allocation
The VIA watchdog driver uses allocate_resource() to reserve a MMIO region for the watchdog control register. However, the allocated resource was not given a name, which causes the kernel resource tree to contain an entry marked as "" under /proc/iomem on x86 platforms.
During boot, this unnamed resource can lead to a critical hang because subsequent resource lookups and conflict checks fail to handle the invalid entry properly.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 3.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d56025a3af50db0f3da2792f41eb9943eee5324mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47c910965c936724070d2a8094a4c3ed8f452856mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa31ee9ec92915926e74731378c009c9cc04928mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6a2dd4f2e4e6cbdfe7a1618160281af897b75dbmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b986adc9e9336066350542ac5a2005d305ae78mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2c7c90aca7b37f60f16b2bedcfeb16204f2f35dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7b6370d0fbee06a867037d675797a606cb62e57mitre
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