CVE-2025-23160

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.1.153 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: mediatek: vcodec: Fix a resource leak related to the scp device in FW initialization On Mediatek devices with a system companion processor (SCP) the mtk_scp structure has to be removed explicitly to avoid a resource leak. Free the structure in case the allocation of the firmware structure fails during the firmware initialization.

References (7)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4936cd5817af35d23e4d283f48fa59a18ef481e4

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69dd5bbdd79c65445bb17c3c53510783bc1d756c

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f009fa823c54ca0857c81f7525ea5a5d32de29c

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac94e1db4b2053059779472eb58a64d504964240

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6cb086aa52bd51378a4c9e2b25d2def97770205

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd7bb97ede487b9f075707b7408a9073e0d474b1

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0010

EPSS Percentile 27.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (7)

linux/linux_kernel < 6.1.153

debian/debian_linux

linux/Kernel < 6.1.153linux

linux/Kernel < 6.6.88linux

linux/Kernel < 6.12.24linux

linux/Kernel < 6.13.12linux

linux/Kernel < 6.14.3linux

Timeline

Published May 01, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026