FKIE_CVE-2025-37955
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-20 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:15
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()
The selftests added to our CI by Bui Quang Minh recently reveals
that there is a mem leak on the error path of virtnet_xsk_pool_enable():
unreferenced object 0xffff88800a68a000 (size 2048):
comm "xdp_helper", pid 318, jiffies 4294692778
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 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x402/0x570
virtnet_xsk_pool_enable+0x293/0x6a0 (drivers/net/virtio_net.c:5882)
xp_assign_dev+0x369/0x670 (net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c:226)
xsk_bind+0x6a5/0x1ae0
__sys_bind+0x15e/0x230
__x64_sys_bind+0x72/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 |
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()\n\nThe selftests added to our CI by Bui Quang Minh recently reveals\nthat there is a mem leak on the error path of virtnet_xsk_pool_enable():\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800a68a000 (size 2048):\n comm \"xdp_helper\", pid 318, jiffies 4294692778\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace (crc 0):\n __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x402/0x570\n virtnet_xsk_pool_enable+0x293/0x6a0 (drivers/net/virtio_net.c:5882)\n xp_assign_dev+0x369/0x670 (net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c:226)\n xsk_bind+0x6a5/0x1ae0\n __sys_bind+0x15e/0x230\n __x64_sys_bind+0x72/0xb0\n do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f"
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"lastModified": "2026-06-17T09:15:46.190",
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