Memory Leak Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.27.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-15910670
  • published6 Apr 2026
  • disclosed25 Mar 2026

Introduced: 25 Mar 2026

NewCVE-2025-71188  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.27.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation

Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux platform device during route allocation.

Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1