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CVE-2025-38565

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-08-19 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another reference count leak. Return early on failure to prevent that.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References