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CVE-2025-38409 (GCVE-0-2025-38409)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 13:20 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:27
VLAI
Title
drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path put_unused_fd() doesn't free the installed file, if we've already done fd_install(). So we need to also free the sync_file. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653583/
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 00b3401f692082ddf6342500d1be25560bba46d4 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < c40ad1c04d306f7fde26337fdcf8a5979657d93f (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 3f6ce8433a9035b0aa810e1f5b708e9dc1c367b0 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < 30d3819b0b9173e31b84d662a592af8bad351427 (git)
Affected: 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 , < f681c2aa8676a890eacc84044717ab0fd26e058f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.144 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.97 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.37 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.6 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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