CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-68321

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.39%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the page pool manager now adds GFP_NOWARN by default for ATOMIC allocations. This prevents annoying OOM messages when network Rx hits page allocation failures during out-of-memory conditions.

Risk Assessment

Without GFP_NOWARN, logs can be flooded with OOM messages, making it harder to diagnose real memory issues.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that includes this fix to add GFP_NOWARN by default for ATOMIC allocations in page_pool.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: always add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations Driver authors often forget to add GFP_NOWARN for page allocation from the datapath. This is annoying to users as OOMs are a fact of life, and we pretty much expect network Rx to hit page allocation failures during OOM. Make page pool add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations by default.

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