# 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-2025-37955"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T16:01:49.209Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:18:20.158Z"
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-2025-37955"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37955.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37955"
title: "virtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-net: free xsk_buffs on error in virtnet_xsk_pool_enable()\n\nThe selftests added to our CI by Bui Quang Minh recently reveals\nthat there is a mem leak on the error path of virtnet_xsk_pool_enable():\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800a68a000 (size 2048):\n  comm \"xdp_helper\", pid 318, jiffies 4294692778\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace (crc 0):\n    __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x402/0x570\n    virtnet_xsk_pool_enable+0x293/0x6a0 (drivers/net/virtio_net.c:5882)\n    xp_assign_dev+0x369/0x670 (net/xdp/xsk_buff_pool.c:226)\n    xsk_bind+0x6a5/0x1ae0\n    __sys_bind+0x15e/0x230\n    __x64_sys_bind+0x72/0xb0\n    do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x1d0\n    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94a6f6c204abb2b2dcd2ce287536cc924469cfb5"},{"version":"e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba6917810bb4a5a32661fa941717399052b3f0d9"},{"version":"e9f3962441c0a4d6f16c656e6c8aa02a3ccdd568","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4397684a292a71fbc1e815c3e283f7490ddce5ae"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.29","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.7","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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