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CVE-2025-22008 (GCVE-0-2025-22008)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-08 08:17 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:10
VLAI
Title
regulator: check that dummy regulator has been probed before using it
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: regulator: check that dummy regulator has been probed before using it Due to asynchronous driver probing there is a chance that the dummy regulator hasn't already been probed when first accessing it.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 259b93b21a9ffe5117af4dfb5505437e463c6a5a , < 998b1aae22dca87da392ea35f089406cbef6032d (git)
Affected: 259b93b21a9ffe5117af4dfb5505437e463c6a5a , < a99f1254b11eaadd0794b74a8178bad92ab01cae (git)
Affected: 259b93b21a9ffe5117af4dfb5505437e463c6a5a , < 21e3fdf3146f9c63888d6bfabbd553434a5fb93f (git)
Affected: 259b93b21a9ffe5117af4dfb5505437e463c6a5a , < 2c7a50bec4958f1d1c84d19cde518d0e96a676fd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.85 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.21 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.9 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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