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CVE-2025-38409: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-401

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/

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 11.0
• Linux kernel: from 3.12 before 6.1.144; from 6.2 before 6.6.97; from 6.7 before 6.12.37; from 6.13 before 6.15.6; 6.16-rc1, 6.16-rc2 — fixed in 6.1.144, 6.12.37, 6.15.6, 6.6.97

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.1.144, 6.12.37, 6.15.6, 6.6.97. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00b3401f692082ddf6342500d1be25560bba46d4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30d3819b0b9173e31b84d662a592af8bad351427
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6ce8433a9035b0aa810e1f5b708e9dc1c367b0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40ad1c04d306f7fde26337fdcf8a5979657d93f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f681c2aa8676a890eacc84044717ab0fd26e058f
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html

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