CVE-2025-71287

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Published 2026-05-06 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memory: mtk-smi: fix device leak on larb probe Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the SMI device during larb probe on late probe failure (e.g. probe deferral) and on driver unbind.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-71287

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-71287.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f69535b77fa0518ad39870c00dd2995439ed5c34

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9eccd59697f7e1cb9a714501d9af826e7f7e073

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dae65913b32d05dbc8ff4b8a6bf04a0e49a8eb6

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/357e16a7fc9c1fef2ea37dce9bb6b9bcb1d1687d

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f23a48ff2b8ab47e514f7c84a4b1dbf9b848168

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1288bb394d464975cea18f69940f206e235e0fe7

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04057b86fdac3d4847913a97dc6552c0bff9b85e

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.1.170-1
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed6.19.6-1
debian debiansidfixed6.19.6-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.12.85-1
linux linux-kernelaffected5.15.203

References

CWEs

CWE-401

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.