CVE-2025-38225 (GCVE-0-2025-38225)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:23
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Title
media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error When allocation failures are not cleaned up by the driver, further allocation errors will be false-positives, which will cause buffers to remain uninitialized and cause NULL pointer dereferences. Ensure proper cleanup of failed allocations to prevent these issues.
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Linux Linux Affected: 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba , < b89ff9cf37ff59399f850d5f7781ef78fc37679f (git)
Affected: 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba , < ec26be7d6355a05552a0d0c1e73031f83aa4dc7f (git)
Affected: 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba , < 0ee9469f818a0b4de3c0e7aecd733c103820d181 (git)
Affected: 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba , < 6d0efe7d35c75394f32ff9d0650a007642d23857 (git)
Affected: 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba , < 7500bb9cf164edbb2c8117d57620227b1a4a8369 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.143 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.95 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.35 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.4 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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