CVE-2025-22005 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-22005

ipv6: Fix memleak of nhc_pcpu_rth_output in fib_check_nh_v6_gw().

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
7dd73168e273938b9e9bb42ca51b0c27d807992b, 5.3, 0, 5.4.292, 5.10.236, 5.15.180, 6.1.132, 6.6.85, 6.12.21, 6.13.9, 6.14

Timeline

Official Publish: April 3rd, 2025
Last Modified: July 14th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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