CVE-2025-68787
Low risk· EPSS 7%Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs
Summary
A memory leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's nr_sendmsg() function of the NET/ROM network stack. When nr_output() returns NULL due to a failed buffer allocation by sock_alloc_send_skb(), the original skb is not freed, causing a memory leak.
Risk Assessment
The memory leak can exhaust available system memory, leading to performance degradation or system crash, especially in long-running environments.
Recommendation
It is recommended to immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that addresses the memory leak in the nr_sendmsg() function of the NET/ROM stack.
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Original NVD description (English source)
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

