{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-68787","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-12-24T10:30:51.036Z","datePublished":"2026-01-13T15:29:00.344Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:53:21.061Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:53:21.061Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak [1].\n\nWhen function sock_alloc_send_skb() return NULL in nr_output(), the\noriginal skb is not freed, which was allocated in nr_sendmsg(). Fix this\nby freeing it before return.\n\n[1]\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888129f35500 (size 240):\n  comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 6119, jiffies 4294944652\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 52 28 81 88 ff ff  ..........R(....\n  backtrace (crc 1456a3e4):\n    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]\n    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4983 [inline]\n    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5288 [inline]\n    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5340\n    __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660\n    alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]\n    alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/skbuff.c:6671\n    sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x379/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2965\n    sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1859 [inline]\n    nr_sendmsg+0x287/0x450 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:1105\n    sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]\n    __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]\n    sock_write_iter+0x293/0x2a0 net/socket.c:1195\n    new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n    vfs_write+0x45d/0x710 fs/read_write.c:686\n    ksys_write+0x143/0x170 fs/read_write.c:738\n    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n    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Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}