CVE-2025-71188 (GCVE-0-2025-71188)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-31 11:41 – Updated: 2026-01-31 11:41
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Title
dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation. Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.
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Linux Linux Affected: e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327 , < 9fba97baa520c9446df51a64708daf27c5a7ed32 (git)
Affected: e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327 , < 992eb8055a6e5dbb808672d20d68e60d5a89b12b (git)
Affected: e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327 , < 1e47d80f6720f0224efd19bcf081d39637569c10 (git)
Affected: e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327 , < d4d63059dee7e7cae0c4d9a532ed558bc90efb55 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.122 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.67 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.7 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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