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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2026· Updated Jun 2, 2026

CVE-2025-71186

CVE-2025-71186

Description

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

dmaengine: stm32: 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.

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