{"id":"CVE-2025-38384","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38384","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T07:25:26.170Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf Memory allocated for the ECC engine conf is not released during spinand cleanup.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf\n\nMemory allocated for the ECC engine conf is not released during spinand\ncleanup. Below kmemleak trace is seen for this memory leak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffffff80064f00e0 (size 8):\n  comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294937458\n  hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........\n  backtrace (crc 0):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x40\n    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x208/0x3c0\n    spinand_ondie_ecc_init_ctx+0x114/0x200\n    nand_ecc_init_ctx+0x70/0xa8\n    nanddev_ecc_engine_init+0xec/0x27c\n    spinand_probe+0xa2c/0x1620\n    spi_mem_probe+0x130/0x21c\n    spi_probe+0xf0/0x170\n    really_probe+0x17c/0x6e8\n    __driver_probe_device+0x17c/0x21c\n    driver_probe_device+0x58/0x180\n    __device_attach_driver+0x15c/0x1f8\n    bus_for_each_drv+0xec/0x150\n    __device_attach+0x188/0x24c\n    device_initial_probe+0x10/0x20\n    bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x160\n\nFix the leak by calling nanddev_ecc_engine_cleanup() inside\nspinand_cleanup().","published":"2025-07-25T13:15:28.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:16:45.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00191,"percentile":0.08672,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.19%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6463cbe08b0cbf9bba8763306764f5fd643023e1","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68d3417305ee100dcad90fd6e5846b22497aa394","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93147abf80a831dd3b5660b3309b4f09546073b2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40b207cafd006c610832ba52a81cedee77adcb9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5c1e3f32902ab518519d05515ee6030fd6c59ae","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f99408670407abb6493780e38cb4ece3fbb52cfc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"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-2025-38384","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."}