CVE-2025-40188 json
pwm: berlin: Fix wrong register in suspend/resume
published 2025-11-12 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-150386
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pwm: berlin: Fix wrong register in suspend/resume
The 'enable' register should be BERLIN_PWM_EN rather than BERLIN_PWM_ENABLE, otherwise, the driver accesses wrong address, there will be cpu exception then kernel panic during suspend/resume.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.4.301, 5.10.246, 5.15.195, 6.1.157, 6.6.113, 6.12.54, 6.17.4, 6.18
- linux Debian 12 6.1.158-1
- linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
- linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40188
- linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-170.180
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
- linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
- linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.107
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
- linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1100.109
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40188
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-38.1.21.15
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
- kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1
- kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 6.4.0-150600.10.61.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20473-1SUSE-SU-2026:20496-1SUSE-SU-2026:20039-1SUSE-SU-2026:20059-1SUSE-SU-2025:4521-1SUSE-SU-2025:4517-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
- kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.8.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:20172-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/da3cadb8b0f35d845b3e2fbb7d978cf6473fd221 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5419c86ea134b8a5b8126f55fa5bc1ad7b3ca444 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee5eb3d09217f115f63b7c102d110ccdb1b26af commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd017aabd4273216ed4223f17991fc087163771f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc3a1c6237e7f8046e6d4109bcf1998452ccafad commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9457e6258750692c3b27f80880a613178053c25 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6cef9e4425143b19742044c8a675335821fa1994 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a4b9d027e4061766f618292df91760ea64a1fcc commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-40188 updated
kernel: pwm: berlin: Fix wrong register in suspend/resume
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/da3cadb8b0f35d845b3e2fbb7d978cf6473fd221
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/5419c86ea134b8a5b8126f55fa5bc1ad7b3ca444
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9ee5eb3d09217f115f63b7c102d110ccdb1b26af
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/fd017aabd4273216ed4223f17991fc087163771f
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/dc3a1c6237e7f8046e6d4109bcf1998452ccafad
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d9457e6258750692c3b27f80880a613178053c25
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/6cef9e4425143b19742044c8a675335821fa1994
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/3a4b9d027e4061766f618292df91760ea64a1fcc
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-40188
- NVD CVE-2025-40188
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