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GHSA-P74F-QPQG-5W8F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-20 18:30 – Updated: 2025-10-20 18:30

Details

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

media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer

One internal buffer which is allocated only once per session was not being freed during session close because it was not being tracked as part of internal buffer list which resulted in a memory leak.

Add the necessary logic to explicitly free the untracked internal buffer during session close to ensure all allocated memory is released properly.

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CVE-2025-40017 (GCVE-0-2025-40017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-20 15:30 – Updated: 2025-12-01 06:16

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer One internal buffer which is allocated only once per session was not being freed during session close because it was not being tracked as part of internal buffer list which resulted in a memory leak. Add the necessary logic to explicitly free the untracked internal buffer during session close to ensure all allocated memory is released properly.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9e024e907cafafd6…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec2f87ad035e8d1ad…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02a24f13b3a1d9da9…

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Linux

Affected: 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 , < c9e024e907cafafd6b094f69a0d0f5d18fd28876 (git)
Affected: 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 , < ec2f87ad035e8d1ad67567542842f1f23a4dbde2 (git)
Affected: 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 , < 02a24f13b3a1d9da9f3de56aa5fdb7cc1fe167a2 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.11 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.1 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-P74F-QPQG-5W8F

CVE-2025-40017 (GCVE-0-2025-40017)

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