CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38565
7.8 HIGH
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- 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
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07091aade394f690e7b655578140ef84d0e8d7b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/163b0d1a209fe0df5476c1df2330ca12b55abf92 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27d44145bd576bbef9bf6165bcd78128ec3e6cbd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ffda7f3ed76ec8defc19d985e33b3b82ba07839 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ff8521f30c4c2fcd4e88bd7640486602bf8a650 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92043120a2e992800580855498ab8507e1b22db9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b90a48c7de828a15c7a4fc565d46999c6e22d6b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de85e72598d89880a02170a1cbc27b35a7d978a9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f41e9eba77bf97626e04296dc5677d02816d2432 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory