ACK: [SRU][N][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2025-38227

Manuel Diewald manuel.diewald at canonical.com
Wed Oct 8 10:14:34 UTC 2025


On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Alice C. Munduruca wrote:
> [ Impact ]
> 
> A Use-After-Free bug is possible in the example driver `vidtv`.
> If the function `vidtv_channel_si_init` fails, we should terminate
> the subsequent process to avoid it accessing the freed `si` member.
> 
> [ Fix ]
> 
> noble: clean cherry pick from upstream commit.
> 
> [ Tests ]
> 
> Compile and boot tested.
> 
> [ Where problems could occur ]
> 
> Given that only the return value of the function changes, there is
> very little chance of regression given that only the failing behavior
> changes. Additionally, this is an example driver and so the risk of
> impact is non-existent.
> 
> Edward Adam Davis (1):
>   media: vidtv: Terminating the subsequent process of initialization
>     failure
> 
>  drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_channel.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
> 
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Acked-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald at canonical.com>

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 Manuel
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