{"id":"CVE-2025-68787","revision":"217f6c9b08d64006937302fd79aa24d1","records":[{"revision":"217f6c9b08d64006937302fd79aa24d1","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2025-68787","aliases":[],"title":"netrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()","description":"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 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-01-13T15:29:00.344+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-15T01:10:11.911+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n \"product\": \"Linux\",\n \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n \"programFiles\": [\n \"net/netrom/nr_out.c\"\n ],\n \"versions\": [\n {\n \"version\": \"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2\",\n \"lessThan\": \"f77e538ac4e3adb1882d5bccb7bfdc111b5963d3\",\n \"status\": \"affected\",\n \"versionType\": \"git\"\n },\n {\n \"version\": 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