CVE-2025-38015

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/868dbce755ec92855362d213f47e045a8388361a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e94a2c3e4c166cd2736ac225fba5889fb1e8ac0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64afd9a1f644b27661420257dcc007d5009c99dd

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f005eb68890698e5abc6a3af04dab76f175c50c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a5cca76c76c86063000a12936f8e7875295838

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-18

Updated: 2025-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018