CVE-2025-38612

CVE-2025-38612 affects the Linux kernel staging driver fbtft (staging: fbtft). The vulnerability is due to a memory leak in fb_deferred_io_init() where memory allocated for info->pagerefs in the fb_info error path was not freed after fb_info allocation completed. The fix adds the cleanup on th...

CVE-2025-38612 staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtftframebufferalloc In the error paths after fbinfo structure is successfully allocated, the memory allocated in fbdeferredioinit for info-pagerefs is not freed. Fix that by adding t...