CVE-2025-38300Missing 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
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.56.1.142+3
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.147-1+2
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-100.100
CVEListV5linux/linux06f751b613296cc34b86fc83fccaf30d646eb8bca0ac3f85b2e3ef529e852f252a70311f9029d5e6+5

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2025-38300 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase