# 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-2025-38612"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:03:54.797Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:31:34.829Z"
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-2025-38612"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38612.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38612"
title: "staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nstaging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()\n\nIn the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated,\nthe memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info-\u003epagerefs is not\nfreed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path."
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