CVE-2025-68741 (GCVE-0-2025-68741)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 12:09 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item
Summary
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() incorrectly uses
kfree() to release the item. If the item was from the pre-allocated
pool, calling kfree() on it is a bug that can lead to memory corruption.
Fix this by using the correct deallocation function,
qla24xx_free_purex_item(), which properly handles both dynamically
allocated and pre-allocated items.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-16 19:31 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 4bccd506a1f1ab01d1f45b2a3effff6bedc73cf9
(git)
Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 8e9f0a0717ba31d5842721627ade1e62d7aec012 (git) Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < cfe3e2f768d248fd3d965d561d0768a56dd0b9f8 (git) Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 5fa1c8226b4532ad7011d295d3ab4ad45df105ae (git) Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 78b1a242fe612a755f2158fd206ee6bb577d18ca (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.63 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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