CVE-2025-71288 memory: mtk-smi: fix device leaks on common probe

What is CVE-2025-71288?

CVE-2025-71288 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 May 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:

memory: mtk-smi: fix device leaks on common probe

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the SMI device during common probe on late probe failure (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-71288?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-71288?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-71288 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-71288 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-71288, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71288, GHSA-pw82-jcjx-2282, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-71288, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-71288.