5.5

CVE-2025-71188: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71188DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71188
Published 31-01-2026Last modified 02-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-71188 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 40 · Related 38
MGASA-2026-0097MGASA-2026-0098OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20416-1SUSE-SU-2026:0962-1SUSE-SU-2026:1081-1SUSE-SU-2026:20667-1

Timeline

  1. 31-01-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.19% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu156 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-176.186 | < 6.8.0-117.117
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.15.0-1105.112 | < 6.8.0-1055.58
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < 3d396ebfb3049a2b5fac51d2c967db5114b685e8 | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < 499ddae78c4baa9b94df76b2d2eb6b150d15377f | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < adef147a8d8c3d767abf88ad2c381ffab2993086 | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < 9fba97baa520c9446df51a64708daf27c5a7ed32 | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < 992eb8055a6e5dbb808672d20d68e60d5a89b12b | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < 1e47d80f6720f0224efd19bcf081d39637569c10 | ≥ e5f4ae84be7421010780984bdc121eac15997327, < d4d63059dee7e7cae0c4d9a532ed558bc90efb55 | 4.3
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.3.1, < 5.10.249 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.199 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.162 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.122 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.67 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.7 | 4.3 | 6.19:rc1 | 6.19:rc2 | 6.19:rc3 | 6.19:rc4 | 6.19:rc5 | 6.19:rc6 | 6.19:rc7 | 6.19:rc8
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.18.8-1

3 vendors · 159 products

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