5.5

CVE-2025-71191: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2025-71191DEBIAN-CVE-2025-71191
Published 31-01-2026Last modified 15-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-71191 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.5% 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
0.22%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 44 · Related 38
DLA-4475-1DLA-4476-1DSA-6126-1DSA-6127-1MGASA-2026-0097MGASA-2026-0098

Timeline

  1. 31-01-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 15-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix device leak on of_dma_xlate() Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA platform device during of_dma_xlate() when releasing channel resources. Note that commit 3832b78b3ec2 ("dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing put_device() call in at_dma_xlate()") fixed the leak in a couple of error paths but the reference is still leaking on successful allocation.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.20% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

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≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < 49d964cde422dc66fea514b7ab24aa729df7081d | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < 4c67b4f45c8540ee4e62e24ca4608c6a9a81ee0f | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < 48b2d7f530b83cb149dbf0e48f95ccadb2d90da9 | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < 987c71671367f42460689b78244d7b894c50999a | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < 6a86cf2c09e149d5718a5b7090545f7566da9334 | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < f3c23b7e941349505c3d40de2cc0acd93d9ac057 | ≥ bbe89c8e3d598129b728d1388c3ad9abe4e8e261, < b9074b2d7a230b6e28caa23165e9d8bc0677d333 | 3.10
  • linux_kernel≥ 3.10.1, < 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 | 3.10 | 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
  • linux< 6.1.162-1 | < 6.12.69-1 | < 6.18.8-1

3 vendors · 159 products

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