# 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-2025-38225"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:40.205Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:23:39.462Z"
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-2025-38225"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38225.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38225"
title: "media: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmedia: imx-jpeg: Cleanup after an allocation error\n\nWhen allocation failures are not cleaned up by the driver, further\nallocation errors will be false-positives, which will cause buffers to\nremain uninitialized and cause NULL pointer dereferences.\nEnsure proper cleanup of failed allocations to prevent these issues."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b89ff9cf37ff59399f850d5f7781ef78fc37679f"},{"version":"2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec26be7d6355a05552a0d0c1e73031f83aa4dc7f"},{"version":"2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0ee9469f818a0b4de3c0e7aecd733c103820d181"},{"version":"2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d0efe7d35c75394f32ff9d0650a007642d23857"},{"version":"2db16c6ed72ce644d5639b3ed15e5817442db4ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7500bb9cf164edbb2c8117d57620227b1a4a8369"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"6.1.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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