CVE-2025-22071 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV4.4
EPSS
0.1%
top 71.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context()
Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity
and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6