{"id":"CVE-2025-38313","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38313","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:52:44.834Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bus: fsl-mc: fix double-free on mc_dev The blamed commit tried to simplify how the deallocations are done but, in the process, introduced a double-free on the mc_dev variable.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbus: fsl-mc: fix double-free on mc_dev\n\nThe blamed commit tried to simplify how the deallocations are done but,\nin the process, introduced a double-free on the mc_dev variable.\n\nIn case the MC device is a DPRC, a new mc_bus is allocated and the\nmc_dev variable is just a reference to one of its fields. In this\ncircumstance, on the error path only the mc_bus should be freed.\n\nThis commit introduces back the following checkpatch warning which is a\nfalse-positive.\n\nWARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required\n+       if (mc_bus)\n+               kfree(mc_bus);","published":"2025-07-10T08:15:30.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:16:36.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-415"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00191,"percentile":0.08618,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.19%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12e4431e5078847791936820bd39df9e1ee26d2e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d5baab39e5b09a76870b345cdee7933871b881f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3135e03a92f6b5259d0a7f25f728e9e7866ede3f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b23c46eb2d88924b93aca647bde9a4b9cf62cf9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7002b954c4a8b9965ba0f139812ee4a6f71beac8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/873d47114fd5e5a1cad2018843671537cc71ac84","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2057374f326303c86d8423415ab58656eebc695","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d694bf8a9acdbd061596f3e7549bc8cb70750a60","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38313","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}