CVE-2025-38409

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.1.144 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path put_unused_fd() doesn't free the installed file, if we've already done fd_install(). So we need to also free the sync_file. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653583/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.2%
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 (7)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.12.0 - 6.1.144linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.97linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.16 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 3.12 - 6.1.144
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026