CVE-2025-38228 (GCVE-0-2025-38228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:23
VLAI
Title
media: imagination: fix a potential memory leak in e5010_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: imagination: fix a potential memory leak in e5010_probe() Add video_device_release() to release the memory allocated by video_device_alloc() if something goes wrong.
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: a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec , < 2a2bd7df402decbdefd0acb64ba4e17a0a2a4117 (git)
Affected: a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec , < fac3b9a91fa099d9bad29648127c0328d6c478c3 (git)
Affected: a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec , < 609ba05b9484856b08869f827a6edee51d51b5f3 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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