CVE-2025-38612

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 5.4.297 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc() In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated, the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.

References (11)

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3290f62f23fae05f2ec34085eb86dfb3648ef91f

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b3d6e8921bbb7b65c2dab8eaa8864901848c1c

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6771f121ae87490ddc19eabb7450383af9e01b6d

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f9e2cf9e9c1a891a683329af35bb33ed9d38b5f

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83ea0c7b8d12c67f6c4703d6c458627a7fc45fc0

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3177955f8da3c826a18b75e54881e2e9a9c96f1

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b31cf6f7716a5d3e4461763f32d812acdaec6e74

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3b1c45c48117ed4d8797ee89d1155f16b72d490

[Patch] https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2cb7dab60f9be0b435ac4a674255429a36d72c

[Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html

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

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0001

EPSS Percentile 2.5%

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 (10)

linux/linux_kernel < 5.4.297

debian/debian_linux

linux/Kernel < 6.12.42linux

linux/Kernel < 5.4.297linux

linux/Kernel < 5.10.241linux

linux/Kernel < 5.15.190linux

linux/Kernel < 6.1.148linux

linux/Kernel < 6.6.102linux

linux/Kernel < 6.15.10linux

linux/Kernel < 6.16.1linux

Timeline

Published Aug 19, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026