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CVE-2025-38409

Updated on 25 Jul 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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/

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:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+9 more)

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/

Fixes