CVE-2025-68288 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-68288

usb: storage: Fix memory leak in USB bulk transport

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: storage: Fix memory leak in USB bulk transport A kernel memory leak was identified by the 'ioctl_sg01' test from Linux Test Project (LTP). The following bytes were mainly observed: 0x53425355. When USB storage devices incorrectly skip the data phase with status data, the code extracts/validates the CSW from the sg buffer, but fails to clear it afterwards. This leaves status protocol data in srb's transfer buffer, such as the US_BULK_CS_SIGN 'USBS' signature observed here. Thus, this can lead to USB protocols leaks to user space through SCSI generic (/dev/sg*) interfaces, such as the one seen here when the LTP test requested 512 KiB. Fix the leak by zeroing the CSW data in srb's transfer buffer immediately after the validation of devices that skip data phase. Note: Differently from CVE-2018-1000204, which fixed a big leak by zero- ing pages at allocation time, this leak occurs after allocation, when USB protocol data is written to already-allocated sg pages.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

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:
a45b599ad808c3c982fdcdc12b0b8611c2f92824, 582802e7c617cfb07cc15f280c128e6decbc57b8, 58b7ce6f9ef2367f86384b20458642945993b816, 93314640426ddb6af618d0802e622f6fa771792c, ad2518320bc440ed3db072e2444a1bb226a9cf7a, d827bea2d18c07ba514f7d48cde49f90da9a1384, 39169410574503c6e901de1aa6eac5108475e017, 3.16.58, 3.18.110, 4.4.133, 4.9.103, 4.14.44, 4.16.12, 4.17, 0, 5.10.247, 5.15.197, 6.1.159, 6.6.119, 6.12.61, 6.17.11, 6.18

Timeline

Official Publish: December 16th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 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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