# 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-2025-38565"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:02:41.700Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:30:33.286Z"
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-2025-38565"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38565.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38565"
title: "perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail\n\nWhen perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the\nevent_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase\nthe perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as\nperf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another\nreference count leak.\n\nReturn early on failure to prevent that."
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