# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37872"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-09T06:44:00.570Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:16:44.502Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37872"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37872.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37872"
title: "net: txgbe: fix memory leak in txgbe_probe() error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: txgbe: fix memory leak in txgbe_probe() error path\n\nWhen txgbe_sw_init() is called, memory is allocated for wx-\u003erss_key\nin wx_init_rss_key(). However, in txgbe_probe() function, the subsequent\nerror paths after txgbe_sw_init() don't free the rss_key. Fix that by\nfreeing it in error path along with wx-\u003emac_table.\n\nAlso change the label to which execution jumps when txgbe_sw_init()\nfails, because otherwise, it could lead to a double free for rss_key,\nwhen the mac_table allocation fails in wx_sw_init()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"635863d93deb8e352d63a8eba852efeaf1ac3539"},{"version":"937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"837197a722919f5b0eeb967fe7cb0cc1e83173b9"},{"version":"937d46ecc5f941b26270bdf7ce37495f12b25955","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b2727326d0a53709380aa147018085d71a6d4843"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.25","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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