CVE-2025-37872 (GCVE-0-2025-37872)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-09 06:44 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:16
VLAI
Title
net: txgbe: fix memory leak in txgbe_probe() error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: txgbe: fix memory leak in txgbe_probe() error path When txgbe_sw_init() is called, memory is allocated for wx->rss_key in wx_init_rss_key(). However, in txgbe_probe() function, the subsequent error paths after txgbe_sw_init() don't free the rss_key. Fix that by freeing it in error path along with wx->mac_table. Also change the label to which execution jumps when txgbe_sw_init() fails, because otherwise, it could lead to a double free for rss_key, when the mac_table allocation fails in wx_sw_init().
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6653 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955 , < 635863d93deb8e352d63a8eba852efeaf1ac3539 (git)
Affected: 937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955 , < 837197a722919f5b0eeb967fe7cb0cc1e83173b9 (git)
Affected: 937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955 , < b2727326d0a53709380aa147018085d71a6d4843 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.25 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.4 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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