CVE-2025-71163 (GCVE-0-2025-71163)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-25 14:36 – Updated: 2026-01-25 14:36
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Title
dmaengine: idxd: fix device leaks on compat bind and unbind
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: fix device leaks on compat bind and unbind Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the idxd device as part of the compat bind and unbind sysfs interface.
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Linux Linux Affected: 6e7f3ee97bbe2c7d7a53b7dbd7a08a579e03c8c9 , < 0c97ff108f825a70c3bb29d65ddf0a013d231bb9 (git)
Affected: 6e7f3ee97bbe2c7d7a53b7dbd7a08a579e03c8c9 , < a7226fd61def74b60dd8e47ec84cabafc39d575b (git)
Affected: 6e7f3ee97bbe2c7d7a53b7dbd7a08a579e03c8c9 , < 799900f01792cf8b525a44764f065f83fcafd468 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.67 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.7 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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