# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38015"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:24.235Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:58:49.570Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38015"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38015.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38015"
title: "dmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: idxd: fix memory leak in error handling path of idxd_alloc\n\nMemory allocated for idxd is not freed if an error occurs during\nidxd_alloc(). To fix it, free the allocated memory in the reverse order\nof allocation before exiting the function in case of an error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64afd9a1f644b27661420257dcc007d5009c99dd"},{"version":"a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e94a2c3e4c166cd2736ac225fba5889fb1e8ac0"},{"version":"a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"868dbce755ec92855362d213f47e045a8388361a"},{"version":"a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4f005eb68890698e5abc6a3af04dab76f175c50c"},{"version":"a8563a33a5e26064061f2fb34215c97f0e2995f4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46a5cca76c76c86063000a12936f8e7875295838"},{"version":"9526f051bedde01baa50081afe143a8bc5b8e6be","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.0.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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