CVE-2025-71188 dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation

What is CVE-2025-71188?

CVE-2025-71188 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 Jan 2026. 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:

dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71188?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71188?

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-2025-71188 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71188 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 BELL-CVE-2025-71188, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71188, GHSA-553m-xcvq-64wh, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-71188, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-71188, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-71188 and 3 more.