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CVE-2025-37817

Updated on 08 May 2025

Severity

7.8 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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

mcb: fix a double free bug in chameleon_parse_gdd()

In chameleon_parse_gdd(), if mcb_device_register() fails, ‘mdev’ would be released in mcb_device_register() via put_device(). Thus, goto ’err’ label and free ‘mdev’ again causes a double free. Just return if mcb_device_register() fails.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+9 more)

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

mcb: fix a double free bug in chameleon_parse_gdd()

In chameleon_parse_gdd(), if mcb_device_register() fails, ‘mdev’ would be released in mcb_device_register() via put_device(). Thus, goto ’err’ label and free ‘mdev’ again causes a double free. Just return if mcb_device_register() fails.

Fixes