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CVE-2025-38421

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-07-30

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86/amd: pmf: Use device managed allocations If setting up smart PC fails for any reason then this can lead to a double free when unloading amd-pmf. This is because dev->buf was freed but never set to NULL and is again freed in amd_pmf_remove(). To avoid subtle allocation bugs in failures leading to a double free change all allocations into device managed allocations.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-415

References