CVE-2025-68787 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
30 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
No vectorEPSS
0.1%
top 83.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 13
Latest updateApr 17
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()
syzbot reported a memory leak [1].
When function sock_alloc_send_skb() return NULL in nr_output(), the
original skb is not freed, which was allocated in nr_sendmsg(). Fix this
by freeing it before return.
[1]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888129f35500 (size 240):
comm "syz.0.17", pid 6119, jiffies 4294944652
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00…
Affected Packages16 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 — f77e538ac4e3adb1882d5bccb7bfdc111b5963d3+7
🔴Vulnerability Details
10OSV▶
linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15 vulnerabilities↗2026-03-17