CVE-2025-38575

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Memory Leak via Improper AEAD Request Freeing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: use aead_request_free to match aead_request_alloc Use aead_request_free() instead of kfree() to properly free memory allocated by aead_request_alloc(). This ensures sensitive crypto data is zeroed before being freed.

References (8)

Core 8

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 31.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (24)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 5.15.180linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.134linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.14.2linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.87linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.23linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 5.15.180 - 5.15.*
... and 14 more
Published Apr 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026