vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-37955: kernel: virtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 20, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Description
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
Solution
References
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