CVE-2025-71188

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJan 31, 2026
First seenJan 31, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.67, 6.18.7 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel4.3.1 ≤ v < 5.10.249, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.199, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.162, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.122, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.67, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.7, 4.3, 6.195.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, 6.6.122, 6.12.67, 6.18.7

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