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GHSA-GX55-M2RG-VQ3H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-15 06:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Properly free struct axi_dmac_desc

Use axi_dmac_free_desc() to free fully the descriptor at fail path when call axi_dmac_alloc_desc() in axi_dmac_prep_peripheral_dma_vec().

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CVE-2026-72475 (GCVE-0-2026-72475)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:57 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:15

Title

dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Properly free struct axi_dmac_desc

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: dma-axi-dmac: Properly free struct axi_dmac_desc Use axi_dmac_free_desc() to free fully the descriptor at fail path when call axi_dmac_alloc_desc() in axi_dmac_prep_peripheral_dma_vec().

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36e9cbbfc09ef7929…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f1ef67c041ef592c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f055829151eed5a9e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4910ce1b3b35687bb…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 36e9cbbfc09ef792918e6a276dd7e2dbca7f31ce (git) Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 9f1ef67c041ef592c13603957ba08b6f21010004 (git) Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < f055829151eed5a9ec4af98a6c1ce75dbaf2e372 (git) Affected: 74609e5686701ed8e8adc3082d15f009e327286d , < 4910ce1b3b35687bb2a5e742c4bfbea3c647c980 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-GX55-M2RG-VQ3H

CVE-2026-72475 (GCVE-0-2026-72475)

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