CVE-2025-21841 (GCVE-0-2025-21841)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-07 09:09
Modified
2025-05-04 07:22
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq/amd-pstate: Fix cpufreq_policy ref counting amd_pstate_update_limits() takes a cpufreq_policy reference but doesn't decrement the refcount in one of the exit paths, fix that.
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Linux Linux Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2
Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2
Version: 45722e777fd99ea863fe653c1838d39f678506e2
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