# 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-2025-39870"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-23T06:00:44.369Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:00:52.713Z"
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-2025-39870"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39870.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39870"
title: "dmaengine: idxd: Fix double free in idxd_setup_wqs()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: idxd: Fix double free in idxd_setup_wqs()\n\nThe clean up in idxd_setup_wqs() has had a couple bugs because the error\nhandling is a bit subtle.  It's simpler to just re-write it in a cleaner\nway.  The issues here are:\n\n1) If \"idxd-\u003emax_wqs\" is \u003c= 0 then we call put_device(conf_dev) when\n   \"conf_dev\" hasn't been initialized.\n2) If kzalloc_node() fails then again \"conf_dev\" is invalid.  It's\n   either uninitialized or it points to the \"conf_dev\" from the\n   previous iteration so it leads to a double free.\n\nIt's better to free partial loop iterations within the loop and then\nthe unwinding at the end can handle whole loop iterations.  I also\nrenamed the labels to describe what the goto does and not where the goto\nwas located."
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