CVE-2025-38015

dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc

Memory allocated for idxd is not freed if an error occurs during

idxd_alloc(). To fix it, free the allocated memory in the reverse order

of allocation before exiting the function in case of an error.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00197 · 8.9th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T09:28Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 09:28Z
    dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc
    cvelistv5