CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38565

7.8 HIGH Published 2025-08-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-08-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another reference count leak. Return early on failure to prevent that.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0 < 5.4.297) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.148) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.102) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.42) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1) • debian debian linux 11.0

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