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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-68741"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T12:09:38.655Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:11:13.586Z"
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-2025-68741"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68741.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68741"
title: "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item\n\nIn qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via\nqla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls\nqla24xx_alloc_purex_item().\n\nThe qla24xx_alloc_purex_item() function may return a pre-allocated item\nfrom a per-adapter pool for small allocations, instead of dynamically\nallocating memory with kzalloc().\n\nAn error handling path in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() incorrectly uses\nkfree() to release the item. If the item was from the pre-allocated\npool, calling kfree() on it is a bug that can lead to memory corruption.\n\nFix this by using the correct deallocation function,\nqla24xx_free_purex_item(), which properly handles both dynamically\nallocated and pre-allocated items."
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