CVE-2025-38015

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.0.9-6.14.7 Use-After-Free in idxd_alloc Error Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc Memory allocated for idxd is not freed if an error occurs during idxd_alloc(). To fix it, free the allocated memory in the reverse order of allocation before exiting the function in case of an error.

References (6)

Core 6

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (21)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.140linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.8linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.92linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.30linux
Linux/Linux < 6.1
Linux/Linux 6.0.9 - 6.1
Linux/Linux 6.1
Linux/Linux 6.1.140 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.30 - 6.12.*
... and 11 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026