CVE-2025-68741Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Linux

Severity
7.2HIGHOSV
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Latest updateApr 17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item In qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via qla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls qla24xx_alloc_purex_item(). The qla24xx_alloc_purex_item() function may return a pre-allocated item from a per-adapter pool for small allocations, instead of dynamically allocating memory with kzalloc(). An error handling path in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() incorrect

Affected Packages15 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

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📋Vendor Advisories

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🕵️Threat Intelligence

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