CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39870
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: idxd: Fix double free in idxd_setup_wqs()
The clean up in idxd_setup_wqs() has had a couple bugs because the error
handling is a bit subtle. It's simpler to just re-write it in a cleaner
way. The issues here are:
1) If "idxd->max_wqs" is <= 0 then we call put_device(conf_dev) when
"conf_dev" hasn't been initialized.
2) If kzalloc_node() fails then again "conf_dev" is invalid. It's
either uninitialized or it points to the "conf_dev" from the
previous iteration so it leads to a double free.
It's better to free partial loop iterations within the loop and then
the unwinding at the end can handle whole loop iterations. I also
renamed the labels to describe what the goto does and not where the goto
was located.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.140 < 6.1.153)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.92 < 6.6.107)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.30 < 6.12.48)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.14.8 < 6.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.15.1 < 6.16.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.15
• linux linux kernel 6.17
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25e6146c2812487a88f619d5ff6efbdcd5b2bc31 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39aaa337449e71a41d4813be0226a722827ba606 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f0e225635475b2285b966271d5e82cba74295b1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df82c7901513fd0fc738052a8e6a330d92cc8ec9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec5430d090d0b6ace8fefa290fc37e88930017d2 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory