CVE-2025-37968 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-37968

iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iio: light: opt3001: fix deadlock due to concurrent flag access The threaded IRQ function in this driver is reading the flag twice: once to lock a mutex and once to unlock it. Even though the code setting the flag is designed to prevent it, there are subtle cases where the flag could be true at the mutex_lock stage and false at the mutex_unlock stage. This results in the mutex not being unlocked, resulting in a deadlock. Fix it by making the opt3001_irq() code generally more robust, reading the flag into a variable and using the variable value at both stages.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
94a9b7b1809f56cfaa080e70ec49b6979563a237, 4.3, 0, 5.4.299, 5.10.243, 5.15.192, 6.1.151, 6.6.105, 6.12.30, 6.14.7, 6.15

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2025
Last Modified: May 12th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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