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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68348"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:32:40.561Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:51:27.551Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-68348"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68348.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68348"
title: "block: fix memory leak in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock: fix memory leak in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages\n\nMove the fatal signal check before bio_alloc() to prevent a memory\nleak when BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE is set and a fatal signal is pending.\n\nPreviously, the bio was allocated before checking for a fatal signal.\nIf a signal was pending, the code would break out of the loop without\nfreeing or chaining the just-allocated bio, causing a memory leak.\n\nThis matches the pattern already used in __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes()\nwhere the signal check precedes the allocation."
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