PT-2025-22216

CVE-2025-37955

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Published

2025-05-05

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Updated

2026-02-27

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.5
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A memory leak issue has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the virtio-net component. The leak occurs on the error path of the virtnet xsk pool enable() function. This issue was revealed by selftests added to the Continuous Integration (CI) system. The memory leak is associated with unreferenced objects, and a backtrace is provided, indicating the involvement of functions such as kvmalloc node noprof, virtnet xsk pool enable, and xsk bind.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
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Related identifiers
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20287-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20555-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20570-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20599-1
SUSE-SU-2026:20615-1
USN-7699-1
USN-7699-2
USN-7721-1
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