CVE-2025-38409 drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

What is CVE-2025-38409?

CVE-2025-38409 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

put_unused_fd() doesn't free the installed file, if we've already done fd_install(). So we need to also free the sync_file.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653583/

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38409?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38409?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-38409 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38409 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-65723, AZL-73031, BELL-CVE-2025-38409, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38409, GHSA-8gx9-2mgx-hm7j, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38409 and 4 more.