6.8

CVE-2025-40017: media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer

Deferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-40017DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40017
Published 20-10-2025Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-40017 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v4.0 (OSV · Ubuntu), selected by version preference
EPSS score
0.24%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15671-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10301-1

Timeline

  1. 20-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: iris: Fix memory leak by freeing untracked persist buffer One internal buffer which is allocated only once per session was not being freed during session close because it was not being tracked as part of internal buffer list which resulted in a memory leak. Add the necessary logic to explicitly free the untracked internal buffer during session close to ensure all allocated memory is released properly.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.24%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

15%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.24% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu87 products
  • linux< 6.17.0-6.6
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.17.0-1003.3
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.16.11-1
Linux1 product
  • linux≥ 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006, < c9e024e907cafafd6b094f69a0d0f5d18fd28876 | ≥ 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006, < ec2f87ad035e8d1ad67567542842f1f23a4dbde2 | ≥ 73702f45db81b74897b2808aaa13484826156006, < 02a24f13b3a1d9da9f3de56aa5fdb7cc1fe167a2 | 6.15

3 vendors · 89 products

References

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