CVE-2025-38015

Published: June 21, 2025Last modified: June 21, 2025

Description

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.

Status

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46a5cca76c76c86063000a12936f8e7875295838
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f005eb68890698e5abc6a3af04dab76f175c50c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64afd9a1f644b27661420257dcc007d5009c99dd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e94a2c3e4c166cd2736ac225fba5889fb1e8ac0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/868dbce755ec92855362d213f47e045a8388361a