CVE-2025-38612

staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated,

the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not

freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00181 · 7.3th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()
    cvelistv5