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CVE-2025-38409drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 91% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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/
Timeline
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By Linux
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 – < 00b3401f692082ddf6342500d1be25560bba46d4
- affected 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 – < c40ad1c04d306f7fde26337fdcf8a5979657d93f
- affected 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 – < 3f6ce8433a9035b0aa810e1f5b708e9dc1c367b0
- affected 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 – < 30d3819b0b9173e31b84d662a592af8bad351427
- affected 0cf6c71d70d8aa39b8fd0e39c9009602a0e0d300 – < f681c2aa8676a890eacc84044717ab0fd26e058f
- affected 3.12
- unaffected < 3.12
- unaffected 6.1.144 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.97 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.37 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.6 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
References6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00b3401f692082ddf6342500d1be25560bba46d4 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40ad1c04d306f7fde26337fdcf8a5979657d93f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6ce8433a9035b0aa810e1f5b708e9dc1c367b0 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30d3819b0b9173e31b84d662a592af8bad351427 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f681c2aa8676a890eacc84044717ab0fd26e058f (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-22592 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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