CVE-2025-38565

Name	CVE-2025-38565
Description	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another reference count leak. Return early on failure to prevent that.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.237-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.148-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.147-1	vulnerable
	trixie	6.12.43-1	fixed
	trixie (security)	6.12.41-1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	6.16.3-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	bookworm	6.1.148-1
linux	source	trixie	6.12.43-1
linux	source	(unstable)	6.16.3-1

https://git.kernel.org/linus/07091aade394f690e7b655578140ef84d0e8d7b0 (6.17-rc1)