Service interruption via unreleased probe allocation
Published Jul 4, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026
Memory leak in Linux kernel 6.11 through 6.12.34 and 6.13 through 6.15.3 allows local users to exhaust memory during failed E5010 probes. The e5010_probe function allocates a video_device object but its failure cleanup omits video_device_release, leaving the object allocated. Successful exploitation requires local low-privileged access and an E5010 device whose probe enters a failure path; the bounded consequence is service interruption through memory exhaustion.
Summary
What happened
Memory leak in Linux kernel 6.11 through 6.12.34 and 6.13 through 6.15.3 allows local users to exhaust memory during failed E5010 probes. The e5010_probe function allocates a video_device object but its failure cleanup omits video_device_release, leaving the object allocated. Successful exploitation requires local low-privileged access and an E5010 device whose probe enters a failure path; the bounded consequence is service interruption through memory exhaustion.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-38228
- Published
- Jul 4, 2025
- Updated
- May 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-401, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 4, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.11
- Affected versionversion=a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec <2a2bd7df402decbdefd0acb64ba4e17a0a2a4117
- Affected versionversion=a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec <609ba05b9484856b08869f827a6edee51d51b5f3
- Affected versionversion=a1e2940458853d00c178c842c889e4ae3ef5eaec <fac3b9a91fa099d9bad29648127c0328d6c478c3
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