CVE-2025-40017

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 < c9e024e907cafafd6b094f69a0d0f5d18fd28876affected
LinuxLinux73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 < ec2f87ad035e8d1ad67567542842f1f23a4dbde2affected
LinuxLinux73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006 < 02a24f13b3a1d9da9f3de56aa5fdb7cc1fe167a2affected
LinuxLinux6.15affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.15unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16.11 <= 6.16.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17.1 <= 6.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18 <= *unaffected

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