CVE-2025-39830

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak. Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d13a6f49cb68aa91bd718b1b627e72e77285c1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-16

Updated: 2025-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/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: 0.00018