CVE-2025-39837CWE-787

CVE-2025-39837

High · published September 19, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix racy registrations

asus_wmi_register_driver() may be called from multiple drivers

concurrently, which can lead to the racy list operations, eventually

corrupting the memory and hitting Oops on some ASUS machines.

Also, the error handling is missing, and it forgot to unregister ACPI

lps0 dev ops in the error case.

This patch covers those issues by introducing a simple mutex at

acpi_wmi_register_driver() & *_unregister_driver, and adding the

proper call of asus_s2idle_check_unregister() in the error path.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00158 · 4.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Published
2025-09-19T20:15Z
Affected products (5)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.66.16.6
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
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References (2)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 15:26Z
    platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix racy registrations
    cvelistv5