CVE-2025-38235

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: appletb-kbd: fix "appletb_backlight" backlight device reference counting During appletb_kbd_probe, probe attempts to get the backlight device by name. When this happens backlight_device_get_by_name looks for a device in the backlight class which has name "appletb_backlight" and upon finding a match it increments the reference count for the device and returns it to the caller. However this reference is never released leading to a reference leak. Fix this by decrementing the backlight device reference count on removal via put_device and on probe failure.

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-38235 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-38235.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4540e41e753a7d69ecd3f5bad51fe620205c3a18
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/751d5437112a3f387de4ef6d2d1c131068ff7627
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070619-CVE-2025-38235-0098@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38235
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38235