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GHSA-QXF4-8XGP-WWWR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-19 18:31 – Updated: 2026-01-07 18:30

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2025-38612 (GCVE-0-2025-38612)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:03 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:31

Title

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

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 54/100 over 6633 records in the last 180 days details

References

11 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3b1c45c48117ed4d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3290f62f23fae05f2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f9e2cf9e9c1a891a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b31cf6f7716a5d3e4…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3177955f8da3c826…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6771f121ae87490dd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b3d6e8921bbb7b6…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2cb7dab60f9be0b…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.0 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.0 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.297 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.241 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.190 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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