Memory Leak Affecting linux-vmware-6.12 package, versions <6.12.80-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-LINUXVMWARE612-15992537
  • published12 Apr 2026
  • disclosed16 Sept 2025

Introduced: 16 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-39830  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard linux-vmware-6.12 to version 6.12.80-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-vmware-6.12 package and not the linux-vmware-6.12 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net/mlx5: HWS, Fix memory leak in hws_pool_buddy_init error path

In the error path of hws_pool_buddy_init(), the buddy allocator cleanup doesn't free the allocator structure itself, causing a memory leak.

Add the missing kfree() to properly release all allocated memory.

CVSS Base Scores

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