CVE-2025-38300 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 10
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: sun8i-ce-cipher - fix error handling in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare()
Fix two DMA cleanup issues on the error path in sun8i_ce_cipher_prepare():
1] If dma_map_sg() fails for areq->dst, the device driver would try to free
DMA memory it has not allocated in the first place. To fix this, on the
"theend_sgs" error path, call dma unmap only if the corresponding dma
map was successful.
2] If the dma_map_single() call for the I…
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
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bc — a0ac3f85b2e3ef529e852f252a70311f9029d5e6+5
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0