5.5

CVE-2025-37955

virtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()

The selftests added to our CI by Bui Quang Minh recently reveals
that there is a mem leak on the error path of virtnet_xsk_pool_enable():

unreferenced object 0xffff88800a68a000 (size 2048):
  comm "xdp_helper", pid 318, jiffies 4294692778
  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 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 0):
    __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x402/0x570
    virtnet_xsk_pool_enable+0x293/0x6a0 (drivers/net/virtio_net.c:5882)
    xp_assign_dev+0x369/0x670 (net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c:226)
    xsk_bind+0x6a5/0x1ae0
    __sys_bind+0x15e/0x230
    __x64_sys_bind+0x72/0xb0
    do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.11 < 6.12.29
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.14.7
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.15 Updaterc1
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.15 Updaterc2
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.15 Updaterc3
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.15 Updaterc4
Linux ≫ Linux Kernel Version6.15 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.05% 0.15
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.