๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2025-39830

MEDIUM 5.5

net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path

CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak. Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.

Vendor linux
Product linux
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Technology
Published Sep 16, 2025
Last Updated May 11, 2026
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Affected Versions

Linux / Linux
c61afff94373641695cc81999e9bb10408ea84d5 < 86d13a6f49cb68aa91bd718b1b627e72e77285c1 c61afff94373641695cc81999e9bb10408ea84d5 < 2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6
Linux / Linux
6.12

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/86d13a6f49cb68aa91bd718b1b627e72e77285c1 git.kernel.org: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c0a959bebdc1ada13cf9a8242f177c5400299e6