memory leak

Windows 11’s built‑in update‑sharing engine, Delivery Optimization (service name DoSvc), is being blamed for steady RAM growth on many machines running 24H2 and 25H2 — a symptom that looks and behaves like a memory leak and that has left some 8 GB and 16 GB systems sluggish or unusable unless...

A subtle memory-management bug in the Nouveau DRM driver's firmware code has been assigned CVE-2025-68235 and patched upstream after a contributor added a missing kfree that prevents a persistent kmemleak warning by correctly freeing nvkm_falcon_fw::boot during teardown. Background The Linux...

A small but important memory-management bug in the Linux kernel’s CIFS/SMB client was assigned CVE-2025-68219 and fixed upstream: the patch closes a leak in the error path of smb3_fs_context_parse_param by ensuring allocated source strings are freed and pointers nulled on all failure paths...

HDF5 users and maintainers should treat a newly disclosed flaw — CVE-2025-7068 — as a real but limited operational risk: a memory‑leak in the HDF5 metadata/cache code that affects HDF5 1.14.6 and can be triggered by local operations that exercise the library’s metadata discard paths. Background...

A recently published Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-53367, fixes a memory leak in the Habana Labs accelerator driver (drivers/accel/habanalabs) that can be triggered during the driver’s management of user mappings when contexts are opened and hard resets occur. The issue does...

A small but real Linux-kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE‑2023‑53410, fixes a memory leak in the USB ULPI driver where a missed dput after a debugfs_lookup call could let kernel memory accumulate over time — the practical impact is availability (resource exhaustion) rather than privilege...

The HP OMEN 25L GT15 listing that’s circulating on marketplace pages promises a high‑end, turnkey gaming desktop built around a 14th‑Gen Intel Core i7 and NVIDIA’s mid‑range Blackwell GPU — but the headline specs and the listing source require careful verification before anyone types a credit...

A subtle but important memory‑management bug in the Linux kernel’s Mellanox mlx5e network driver — tracked as CVE‑2023‑53371 — was patched upstream after maintainers discovered an error path that failed to free a dynamically allocated object, permitting a local attacker or misbehaving process to...

The recently disclosed issue tied to CVE-2022-50418 — a memory-leak and lifecycle-handling defect in the ath11k wireless driver’s MHI interactions — is a textbook example of how subtle resource-management mistakes in kernel drivers produce outsized operational impact for Wi‑Fi hosts and embedded...

The Linux kernel received a targeted fix for a memory-leak bug in the AMDGPU DRM driver — tracked as CVE-2023-53370 — that corrects how fences associated with an MES (Micro-Engine Scheduler) queue are cleaned up during ring finalization, closing a local denial-of-service and resource-exhaustion...

A small but consequential memory‑management bug in the Linux kernel’s CIFS/SMB client — tracked as CVE‑2025‑40268 — has been fixed upstream; the vulnerability is a memory leak in smb3_fs_context_parse_param that can cause unreferenced kernel memory to accumulate when userland calls fsconfig...

Windows 11 users are suddenly facing a double squeeze: popular Chromium- and Electron-based apps — most notably Discord — are consuming far more RAM than many expect, and that problem is colliding with a memory market already strained by AI-driven demand and rising DRAM prices. What started as...

A memory-leak bug in the Linux kernel’s UBI driver — tracked as CVE‑2024‑25740 — allows repeated use of the UBI_IOCATT path to accumulate unreleased kernel objects because the kobject name (kobj->name) is not freed on error paths, producing a sustained or persistent availability impact that...

A subtle memory leak in the Linux kernel’s udmabuf driver — tracked as CVE-2024-56712 — has been closed by a small, surgical change to the export path that prevents orphaned dma_buf objects when file-descriptor assignment fails; the bug is low in severity but meaningful for systems that...

A subtle lifecycle bug in the Linux UFS platform driver — tracked as CVE-2024-57872 — can leave a host bus adapter (HBA) detached code path improperly cleaned up during ufshcd_pltfrm_remove, producing memory leaks and an availability risk for affected systems. The fix upstream ensures the SCSI...

Libssh contains a memory‑exhaustion defect in its key‑exchange handling (CVE‑2025‑8277) that can, under repeated rekeying attempts with incorrect KEX guesses, leak ephemeral key material and gradually exhaust client memory — a low‑severity but practical availability risk for any software that...

A newly cataloged weakness in GNU Binutils — tracked as CVE-2025-1152 — exposes a memory‑management bug in the linker’s xstrdup implementation that can leak allocated memory when processing crafted input, and while vendors rate its raw CVSS severity as low, the real operational risk centers on...

A creeping, low‑severity flaw in GNU Binutils — tracked as CVE‑2025‑1151 — has drawn attention because it exposes a persistent memory leak in the linker’s xmemdup implementation and because a public proof‑of‑concept is available; while the technical impact is limited, the operational risk to...

A subtle bug in the Linux kernel’s eBPF fentry attach path — tracked as CVE-2023-53221 — can leave behind allocated BPF trampoline images when an fentry attach fails, producing a persistent memory leak that, if abused at scale, can deny availability to services and systems; this behavior is...

A small reordering of error handling in the Linux kernel's Btrfs create_subvol path fixed a memory-management bug that could leak an internal "anon_dev" allocation and, in aggregate, cause sustained availability problems on affected systems — administrators should treat this as a local...