CVE-2025-68787
CVE-2025-68787CVE-2025-68787
Description
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/s
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| Last modified | 2026-07-14 |