CVE-2025-38444 — Missing 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
Affected products
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
▶CVEListV5linux/linux39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8 — 10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7+6
Also affects: Debian Linux 11.0