CVE-2025-38341 (GCVE-0-2025-38341)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-10 08:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:01
VLAI
Title
eth: fbnic: avoid double free when failing to DMA-map FW msg
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: eth: fbnic: avoid double free when failing to DMA-map FW msg The semantics are that caller of fbnic_mbx_map_msg() retains the ownership of the message on error. All existing callers dutifully free the page.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: da3cde08209ec1c915195c2331c275397f34a731 , < 670179265ad787b9dd8e701601914618b8927755 (git)
Affected: da3cde08209ec1c915195c2331c275397f34a731 , < 0a211e23852019ef55c70094524e87a944accbb5 (git)
Affected: da3cde08209ec1c915195c2331c275397f34a731 , < 5bd1bafd4474ee26f504b41aba11f3e2a1175b88 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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