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CVE-2025-38015 (GCVE-0-2025-38015)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 09:28 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:58
VLAI
Title
dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4 , < 64afd9a1f644b27661420257dcc007d5009c99dd (git)
Affected: a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4 , < 6e94a2c3e4c166cd2736ac225fba5889fb1e8ac0 (git)
Affected: a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4 , < 868dbce755ec92855362d213f47e045a8388361a (git)
Affected: a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4 , < 4f005eb68890698e5abc6a3af04dab76f175c50c (git)
Affected: a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4 , < 46a5cca76c76c86063000a12936f8e7875295838 (git)
Affected: 9526f051bedde01baa50081afe143a8bc5b8e6be (git)
Affected: 6.0.9 , < 6.1 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.140 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.92 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.30 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.8 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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