{"cve":"CVE-2025-38384","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-25T13:15:27.643","modified":"2026-06-17T09:16:44.920","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: spinand: fix memory leak of ECC engine conf\n\nMemory allocated for the ECC engine conf is not released during spinand\ncleanup. Below kmemleak trace is seen for this memory leak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffffff80064f00e0 (size 8):\n  comm \"swapper/0\", pid 1, jiffies 4294937458\n  hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........\n  backtrace (crc 0):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0x30/0x40\n    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x208/0x3c0\n    spinand_ondie_ecc_init_ctx+0x114/0x200\n    nand_ecc_init_ctx+0x70/0xa8\n    nanddev_ecc_engine_init+0xec/0x27c\n    spinand_probe+0xa2c/0x1620\n    spi_mem_probe+0x130/0x21c\n    spi_probe+0xf0/0x170\n    really_probe+0x17c/0x6e8\n    __driver_probe_device+0x17c/0x21c\n    driver_probe_device+0x58/0x180\n    __device_attach_driver+0x15c/0x1f8\n    bus_for_each_drv+0xec/0x150\n    __device_attach+0x188/0x24c\n    device_initial_probe+0x10/0x20\n    bus_probe_device+0x11c/0x160\n\nFix the leak by calling nanddev_ecc_engine_cleanup() inside\nspinand_cleanup().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6463cbe08b0cbf9bba8763306764f5fd643023e1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68d3417305ee100dcad90fd6e5846b22497aa394","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93147abf80a831dd3b5660b3309b4f09546073b2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40b207cafd006c610832ba52a81cedee77adcb9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5c1e3f32902ab518519d05515ee6030fd6c59ae"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:05:46.678065081+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38384","score":0.00189,"percentile":0.08598,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}