CVE-2025-38612

medium

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

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2cb7dab60f9be0b435ac4a674255429a36d72c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b31cf6f7716a5d3e4461763f32d812acdaec6e74

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3177955f8da3c826a18b75e54881e2e9a9c96f1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f9e2cf9e9c1a891a683329af35bb33ed9d38b5f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6771f121ae87490ddc19eabb7450383af9e01b6d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b3d6e8921bbb7b65c2dab8eaa8864901848c1c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-08-19

Updated: 2025-08-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

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: 0.00024