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GHSA-X73H-J8WV-P248

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-31 12:30 – Updated: 2026-01-31 12:30

Details

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

dmaengine: stm32: 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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CVE-2025-71186 (GCVE-0-2025-71186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-31 11:41 – Updated: 2026-01-31 11:41

Title

dmaengine: stm32: dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: stm32: 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.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a179ac01ff3993ab…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fb10259d4efb4367…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ef52d31cce8ba816…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd6e4943889fb354e…

Impacted products

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Product

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Linux

Affected: df7e762db5f6c8dbd9e480f1c9ef9851de346657 , < 1a179ac01ff3993ab97e33cc77c316ed7415cda1 (git)
Affected: df7e762db5f6c8dbd9e480f1c9ef9851de346657 , < 2fb10259d4efb4367787b5ae9c94192e8a91c648 (git)
Affected: df7e762db5f6c8dbd9e480f1c9ef9851de346657 , < 3ef52d31cce8ba816739085a61efe07b63c6cf27 (git)
Affected: df7e762db5f6c8dbd9e480f1c9ef9851de346657 , < dd6e4943889fb354efa3f700e42739da9bddb6ef (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (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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GHSA-X73H-J8WV-P248

CVE-2025-71186 (GCVE-0-2025-71186)

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