CVE-2025-38444Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.75%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMar 25

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request If raid10_read_request or raid10_write_request registers a new request and the REQ_NOWAIT flag is set, the code does not free the malloc from the mempool. unreferenced object 0xffff8884802c3200 (size 192): comm "fio", pid 9197, jiffies 4298078271 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........A...... 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0

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_kernel5.15.1115.15.189+5
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.147-1+2
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.15.0-156.166+1
CVEListV5linux/linux39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f810c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7+6

Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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📋Vendor Advisories

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CVE-2025-38444 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase