vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-38313

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 10, 2025
Added
Oct 10, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bus: fsl-mc: fix double-free on mc_dev

The blamed commit tried to simplify how the deallocations are done but,
in the process, introduced a double-free on the mc_dev variable.

In case the MC device is a DPRC, a new mc_bus is allocated and the
mc_dev variable is just a reference to one of its fields. In this
circumstance, on the error path only the mc_bus should be freed.

This commit introduces back the following checkpatch warning which is a
false-positive.

WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required
+ if (mc_bus)
+ kfree(mc_bus);

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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