# CVE-2025-38409: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-07-25 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 3.12

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix another leak in the submit error path put_unused_fd() doesn't free the installed file, if we've already done fd_install(). So we need to also free the sync_file. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/653583/

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00b3401f692082ddf6342500d1be25560bba46d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c40ad1c04d306f7fde26337fdcf8a5979657d93f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6ce8433a9035b0aa810e1f5b708e9dc1c367b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30d3819b0b9173e31b84d662a592af8bad351427
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f681c2aa8676a890eacc84044717ab0fd26e058f

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