CVE-2025-68787 (GCVE-0-2025-68787)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:29 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:33
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Title
netrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()
Summary
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 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 52 28 81 88 ff ff ..........R(.... backtrace (crc 1456a3e4): kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4983 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5288 [inline] kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5340 __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline] alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/skbuff.c:6671 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x379/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2965 sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1859 [inline] nr_sendmsg+0x287/0x450 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:1105 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline] sock_write_iter+0x293/0x2a0 net/socket.c:1195 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x45d/0x710 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x143/0x170 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < f77e538ac4e3adb1882d5bccb7bfdc111b5963d3 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 09efbf54eeaecebe882af603c9939a4b1bb9567e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 73839497bbde5cd4fd02bbd9c8bc2640780ae65d (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 156a0f6341dce634a825db49ca20b48b1ae9bcc1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8d1ccba4b171cd504ecfa47349cb9864fc9d687c (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 51f5fbc1681bdcffcc7d18bf3dfdb2b1278d3977 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 613d12dd794e078be8ff3cf6b62a6b9acf7f4619 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.248 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.198 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.160 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.64 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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