CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-21882

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the mlx5 driver did not free the scheduling node during vport QoS cleanup, causing a memory leak. Added the missing free and reset of the pointer.

Risk Assessment

The memory leak may exhaust available system memory over time, leading to performance degradation or system crashes.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds freeing of the scheduling node during vport QoS cleanup in the mlx5 driver.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix vport QoS cleanup on error When enabling vport QoS fails, the scheduling node was never freed, causing a leak. Add the missing free and reset the vport scheduling node pointer to NULL.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS