Updated: 2025-11-10 02:44:43.485056
Description:
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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | 0.0 | |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 5.5 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 7 ELS | kernel-uek | 5.4.17 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2025:1757963029 | 2025-09-16 00:59:38 | |
| Ubuntu 18.04 ELS | linux | 4.15.0 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Ignored | 2025-08-23 06:48:50 | Ignored due to low severity | |
| Ubuntu 20.04 ELS | linux | 5.4.0 | 5.5 | MEDIUM | Ignored | 2025-07-09 01:18:00 | Ignored due to low severity |