CVE-2025-38418 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.6OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
remoteproc: core: Release rproc->clean_table after rproc_attach() fails
When rproc->state = RPROC_DETACHED is attached to remote processor
through rproc_attach(), if rproc_handle_resources() returns failure,
then the clean table should be released, otherwise the following
memory leak will occur.
unreferenced object 0xffff000086a99800 (size 1024):
comm "kworker/u12:3", pid 59, jiffies 4294893670 (age 121.140s)
hex dump (first …
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/linux9dc9507f1880fb6225e3e058cb5219b152cbf198 — 3562c09feeb8d8e9d102ce6840e8c7d57a7feb5c+6
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0