CVE-2025-38225: media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-38225 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in debian debian_linux. EPSS estimates a 0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 42 · Related 38Timeline
- 04-07-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated5.5MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
6%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Increase +0.01 pp
From 0.15% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu135 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-100.100
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1046.49
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
- linux< 6.1.147-1 | < 6.12.35-1
- debian_linuxEOL11.0
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba, < b89ff9cf37ff59399f850d5f7781ef78fc37679f | ≥ 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba, < ec26be7d6355a05552a0d0c1e73031f83aa4dc7f | ≥ 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba, < 0ee9469f818a0b4de3c0e7aecd733c103820d181 | ≥ 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba, < 6d0efe7d35c75394f32ff9d0650a007642d23857 | ≥ 2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba, < 7500bb9cf164edbb2c8117d57620227b1a4a8369 | 5.13
- linux_kernel≥ 5.13, < 6.1.143 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.95 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.35 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.15.4
3 vendors · 139 products
