CVE-2025-38444

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request If raid10_read_request or raid10_write_request registers a new request and the REQ_NOWAIT flag is set, the code does not free the malloc from the mempool. unreferenced object 0xffff8884802c3200 (size 192): comm "fio", pid 9197, jiffies 4298078271 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........A...... 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc c1a049a2): __kmalloc+0x2bb/0x450 mempool_alloc+0x11b/0x320 raid10_make_request+0x19e/0x650 [raid10] md_handle_request+0x3b3/0x9e0 __submit_bio+0x394/0x560 __submit_bio_noacct+0x145/0x530 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x682/0x830 __blkdev_direct_IO_async+0x4dc/0x6b0 blkdev_read_iter+0x1e5/0x3b0 __io_read+0x230/0x1110 io_read+0x13/0x30 io_issue_sqe+0x134/0x1180 io_submit_sqes+0x48c/0xe90 __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0x574/0x8b0 do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e V4: changing backing tree to see if CKI tests will pass. The patch code has not changed between any versions.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (15)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8 < 10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7
Linux Linux c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 < 9af149ca9d0dab6e59e813519d309eff62499864
Linux Linux c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 < 8fc3d7b23d139e3cbc944c15d99b3cdbed797d2d
Linux Linux c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 < 2941155d9a5ae098b480d551f3a5f8605d4f9af5
Linux Linux c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 < ed7bcd9f617e4107ac0813c516e72e6b8f6029bd
Linux Linux c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2 < 43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24
Linux Linux 5.15.111 < 5.15.189
Linux Linux 5.17
debian debian_linux 11.0
linux linux_kernel 5.15.111 – 5.15.189
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16
linux linux_kernel 6.16

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.18%
Raw Score 0.001800
Percentile 7.6%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00180
2026-11-12
0.00180
2026-11-10
0.00180
2026-11-09
0.00180
2026-11-08
0.00180
2026-11-07
0.00180
2026-11-06
0.00180
2026-11-05
0.00180

Intelligence Sources

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