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

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.

Published: 2025-10-20 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
NVD Status：Deferred，CVE State: published
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CVE-2025-40017 is rated Low Risk (2.8/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.02%). Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-40017

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-10-21 — 0.02% —

Full EPSS history (1 record total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-40017

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-40017

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-40017

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2025-40017 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-40017
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40017
suse low CVE-2025-40017 severity low: SUSE including 30 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 280 product×package rows across 55 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7, … (55 product lines)): Known Not Affected 276, Fixed 4. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-40017/
ubuntu medium CVE-2025-40017 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 159, not-affected 141, released 93, needs-triage 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40017

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-40017

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
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References for CVE-2025-40017

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