CVE intelligence

CVE-2025-71192

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Feb 4, 2026Sources checked Sep 12, 2026

7.0HIGHCVSS out of 10

What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2025-71192 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.0. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2025-71192?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register() If ac97_add_adapter() fails, put_device() is the correct way to drop the device reference. kfree() is not required. Add kfree() if idr_alloc() fails and in ac97_adapter_release() to do the cleanup. Found by code review.