CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-37757

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the TIPC protocol has a memory leak in tipc_link_xmit(). When the backlog transmit queue for high-priority messages is full, the function returns -ENOBUFS without purging the skb list, causing a memory leak.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust kernel memory by sending a large number of TIPC system messages, leading to denial of service.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that purges the skb list before returning an error in tipc_link_xmit().

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_link_xmit In case the backlog transmit queue for system-importance messages is overloaded, tipc_link_xmit() returns -ENOBUFS but the skb list is not purged. This leads to memory leak and failure when a skb is allocated. This commit fixes this issue by purging the skb list before tipc_link_xmit() returns.

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