CVE-2025-68355 (GCVE-0-2025-68355)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:51
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Title
bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak When excl_prog_hash is 0 and excl_prog_hash_size is non-zero, the map also needs to be freed. Otherwise, the map memory will not be reclaimed, just like the memory leak problem reported by syzbot [1]. syzbot reported: BUG: memory leak backtrace (crc 7b9fb9b4): map_create+0x322/0x11e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:1512 __sys_bpf+0x3556/0x3610 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:6131
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: baefdbdf6812e120c9fba9cfb101d3656f478026 , < f0022551745d72fc0e7bc8601234d690dee2178d (git)
Affected: baefdbdf6812e120c9fba9cfb101d3656f478026 , < 688b745401ab16e2e1a3b504863f0a45fd345638 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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