CVE-2025-38015

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak

Title source: llm

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)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a5cca76c76c86063000a12936f8e7875295838

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f005eb68890698e5abc6a3af04dab76f175c50c

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64afd9a1f644b27661420257dcc007d5009c99dd

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e94a2c3e4c166cd2736ac225fba5889fb1e8ac0

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/868dbce755ec92855362d213f47e045a8388361a

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 9.6%

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 (12)

linux/linux_kernel < 6.1.140

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

linux/linux_kernel

debian/debian_linux

linux/Kernel < 6.1.140linux

linux/Kernel < 6.6.92linux

linux/Kernel < 6.12.30linux

linux/Kernel < 6.14.8linux

Timeline

Published Jun 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026