CVE-2025-22005CWE-401

CVE-2025-22005

Medium · published April 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ipv6: Fix memleak of nhc_pcpu_rth_output in fib_check_nh_v6_gw().

fib_check_nh_v6_gw() expects that fib6_nh_init() cleans up everything

when it fails.

Commit 7dd73168e273 ("ipv6: Always allocate pcpu memory in a fib6_nh")

moved fib_nh_common_init() before alloc_percpu_gfp() within fib6_nh_init()

but forgot to add cleanup for fib6_nh->nh_common.nhc_pcpu_rth_output in

case it fails to allocate fib6_nh->rt6i_pcpu, resulting in memleak.

Let's call fib_nh_common_release() and clear nhc_pcpu_rth_output in the

error path.

Note that we can remove the fib6_nh_release() call in nh_create_ipv6()

later in net-next.git.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00215 · 11.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2025-04-03T12:15Z
Affected products (13)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.3, < 5.4.2925.4.292
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.2365.10.236
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1326.1.132
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.856.6.85
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.216.12.21
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.13.96.13.9
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References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 07:19Z
    ipv6: Fix memleak of nhc_pcpu_rth_output in fib_check_nh_v6_gw().
    cvelistv5