CVE-2025-38225 json
media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
published 2025-07-04 16 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-20031
- cvss
- 5.5
- version 3.1, NVD
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
When allocation failures are not cleaned up by the driver, further allocation errors will be false-positives, which will cause buffers to remain uninitialized and cause NULL pointer dereferences. Ensure proper cleanup of failed allocations to prevent these issues.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 6.1.143, 6.6.95, 6.12.35, 6.15.4, 6.16
- linux Debian 12 6.1.147-1
- linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.12.35-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38225
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-100.100
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1046.49
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1047.50
- linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1043.48
- linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1044.44
- linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1046.52
- linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1030.33
- linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1047.51
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38225
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.2 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-64kb SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-source SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-default SLES 16.0, SLE High Availability Extension 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2 +1 more 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-default-base SLES 16.0, Linux Micro 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4
- kernel-syms SLES 16.0, Linux Micro Extras 6.2, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-obs-qa SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-kvmsmall SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1SUSE-SU-2026:20560-1SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1SUSE-SU-2025:03023-1SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1
- kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
- kernel-kvmsmall openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.6.1
opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b89ff9cf37ff59399f850d5f7781ef78fc37679f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec26be7d6355a05552a0d0c1e73031f83aa4dc7f commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ee9469f818a0b4de3c0e7aecd733c103820d181 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d0efe7d35c75394f32ff9d0650a007642d23857 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7500bb9cf164edbb2c8117d57620227b1a4a8369 commit
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-38225 updated
kernel: media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernelnot affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.1 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
- Technology feeds
References
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git.kernel.org
/stable/c/b89ff9cf37ff59399f850d5f7781ef78fc37679f
patch
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git.kernel.org
/stable/c/ec26be7d6355a05552a0d0c1e73031f83aa4dc7f
patch
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git.kernel.org
/stable/c/0ee9469f818a0b4de3c0e7aecd733c103820d181
patch
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git.kernel.org
/stable/c/6d0efe7d35c75394f32ff9d0650a007642d23857
patch
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git.kernel.org
/stable/c/7500bb9cf164edbb2c8117d57620227b1a4a8369
patch
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lists.debian.org
/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
mailing-list, third-party-advisory
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-38225
- NVD CVE-2025-38225
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