CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21981
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: fix memory leak in aRFS after reset
Fix aRFS (accelerated Receive Flow Steering) structures memory leak by
adding a checker to verify if aRFS memory is already allocated while
configuring VSI. aRFS objects are allocated in two cases:
- as part of VSI initialization (at probe), and
- as part of reset handling
However, VSI reconfiguration executed during reset involves memory
allocation one more time, without prior releasing already allocated
resources. This led to the memory leak with the following signature:
[root@os-delivery ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xff3c1ca7252e6000 (size 8192):
comm "kworker/0:0", pid 8, jiffies 4296833052
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
[<ffffffff991ec485>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x275/0x340
[<ffffffffc0a6e06a>] ice_init_arfs+0x3a/0xe0 [ice]
[<ffffffffc09f1027>] ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x607/0x850 [ice]
[<ffffffffc09f244b>] ice_vsi_setup+0x5b/0x130 [ice]
[<ffffffffc09c2131>] ice_init+0x1c1/0x460 [ice]
[<ffffffffc09c64af>] ice_probe+0x2af/0x520 [ice]
[<ffffffff994fbcd3>] local_pci_probe+0x43/0xa0
[<ffffffff98f07103>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff98f0b6d9>] process_one_work+0x179/0x390
[<ffffffff98f0c1e9>] worker_thread+0x239/0x340
[<ffffffff98f14abc>] kthread+0xcc/0x100
[<ffffffff98e45a6d>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
[<ffffffff98e083ba>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
...
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 6.1.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.84)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23d97f18901ef5e4e264e3b1777fe65c760186b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b27e6e10a32589fcd293b8933ab6de9387a460e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d30d256661fc11b6e73fac6c3783a702e1006a3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78f3d64b30210c0e521c59357431aca14024cb79 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6902101f34f098af59b0d1d8cf90c4124c02c6a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef2bc94059836a115430a6ad9d2838b0b34dc8f5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcbacc47d16306c87ad1b820b7a575f6e9eae58b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org