CVE-2025-71233HighMicrosoft CVSS 8.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Microsoft security update for CVE-2025-71233

Published
February 21, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products3

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.121.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.126.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.200.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update5.15.202.1-1
—Security Update6.6.130.1-1

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-71233

EchelonGraph score
5.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the work completes. The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands: # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test # for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088 ... Call Trace: configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190 pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110 process_one_work+0x18f/0x350 worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0 Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require the delayed work handler. [mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-71233, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

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