CVE-2025-71191

medium

Published 2026-01-31 · Modified 2026-06-02

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix device leak on of_dma_xlate() Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA platform device during of_dma_xlate() when releasing channel resources. Note that commit 3832b78b3ec2 ("dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing put_device() call in at_dma_xlate()") fixed the leak in a couple of error paths but the reference is still leaking on successful allocation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.19	Affected	—
3.10	Affected	—
—	Affected	`5.10.249`

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.12.69-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.18.8-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.18.8-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.10.249-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.162-1`

References

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