CVE-2025-71114

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: via_wdt: fix critical boot hang due to unnamed resource allocation The VIA watchdog driver uses allocate_resource() to reserve a MMIO region for the watchdog control register. However, the allocated resource was not given a name, which causes the kernel resource tree to contain an entry marked as "<BAD>" under /proc/iomem on x86 platforms. During boot, this unnamed resource can lead to a critical hang because subsequent resource lookups and conflict checks fail to handle the invalid entry properly.

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 7% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-401, CWE-20

Published

2026-01-14

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d56025a3af50db0f3da2792f41eb9943eee5324
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47c910965c936724070d2a8094a4c3ed8f452856
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7aa31ee9ec92915926e74731378c009c9cc04928
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6a2dd4f2e4e6cbdfe7a1618160281af897b75db
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b986adc9e9336066350542ac5a2005d305ae78

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