CVE-2025-40017

media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer

N/A
Published: October 20, 2025 at 03:30 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer One internal buffer which is allocated only once per session was not being freed during session close because it was not being tracked as part of internal buffer list which resulted in a memory leak. Add the necessary logic to explicitly free the untracked internal buffer during session close to ensure all allocated memory is released properly.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.1573702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006
Vendor states this is fixed in 02a24f13b3a1d9da9f3de56aa5fdb7cc1fe167a2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c9e024e907cafafd6b094f69a0d0f5d18fd28876 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ec2f87ad035e8d1ad67567542842f1f23a4dbde2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.15 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.16.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)

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