| Name | CVE-2025-40017 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, 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 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.244-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.148-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.158-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.12.43-1 | fixed |
| trixie (security) | 6.12.48-1 | fixed |
| forky | 6.16.12-2 | fixed |
| sid | 6.17.7-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| linux | source | bullseye | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | bookworm | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | trixie | (not affected) | | | |
| linux | source | (unstable) | 6.16.11-1 | | | |
Notes
[trixie] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bookworm] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[bullseye] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/02a24f13b3a1d9da9f3de56aa5fdb7cc1fe167a2 (6.18-rc1)