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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-68787" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-01-13T15:29:00.344Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:10:11.911Z" 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-2025-68787" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-68787.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68787" title: "netrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetrom: Fix memory leak in nr_sendmsg()\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak [1].\n\nWhen function sock_alloc_send_skb() return NULL in nr_output(), the\noriginal skb is not freed, which was allocated in nr_sendmsg(). Fix this\nby freeing it before return.\n\n[1]\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888129f35500 (size 240):\n comm \"syz.0.17\", pid 6119, jiffies 4294944652\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 10 52 28 81 88 ff ff ..........R(....\n backtrace (crc 1456a3e4):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4983 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5288 [inline]\n kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x36f/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:5340\n __alloc_skb+0x203/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:660\n alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]\n alloc_skb_with_frags+0x69/0x3f0 net/core/skbuff.c:6671\n sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x379/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2965\n sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1859 [inline]\n nr_sendmsg+0x287/0x450 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:1105\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]\n __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]\n sock_write_iter+0x293/0x2a0 net/socket.c:1195\n new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n vfs_write+0x45d/0x710 fs/read_write.c:686\n ksys_write+0x143/0x170 fs/read_write.c:738\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f77e538ac4e3adb1882d5bccb7bfdc111b5963d3"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09efbf54eeaecebe882af603c9939a4b1bb9567e"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73839497bbde5cd4fd02bbd9c8bc2640780ae65d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"156a0f6341dce634a825db49ca20b48b1ae9bcc1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d1ccba4b171cd504ecfa47349cb9864fc9d687c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51f5fbc1681bdcffcc7d18bf3dfdb2b1278d3977"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"613d12dd794e078be8ff3cf6b62a6b9acf7f4619"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.10.248","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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