# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38390"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-25T12:53:30.311Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:27:03.426Z"
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-2025-38390"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38390.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38390"
title: "firmware: arm_ffa: Fix memory leak by freeing notifier callback node"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware: arm_ffa: Fix memory leak by freeing notifier callback node\n\nCommit e0573444edbf (\"firmware: arm_ffa: Add interfaces to request\nnotification callbacks\") adds support for notifier callbacks by allocating\nand inserting a callback node into a hashtable during registration of\nnotifiers. However, during unregistration, the code only removes the\nnode from the hashtable without freeing the associated memory, resulting\nin a memory leak.\n\nResolve the memory leak issue by ensuring the allocated notifier callback\nnode is properly freed after it is removed from the hashtable entry."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"076fa20b4f5737c34921dbb152f9efceaee571b2"},{"version":"e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"938827c440564b2cf2f9b804d1fe81ce8267eded"},{"version":"e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a833d31ad867103ba72a0b73f3606f4ab8601719"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.37","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.6","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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