CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68741
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-13
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item
In qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via
qla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls
qla24xx_alloc_purex_item().
The qla24xx_alloc_purex_item() function may return a pre-allocated item
from a per-adapter pool for small allocations, instead of dynamically
allocating memory with kzalloc().
An error handling path in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() incorrectly uses
kfree() to release the item. If the item was from the pre-allocated
pool, calling kfree() on it is a bug that can lead to memory corruption.
Fix this by using the correct deallocation function,
qla24xx_free_purex_item(), which properly handles both dynamically
allocated and pre-allocated items.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bccd506a1f1ab01d1f45b2a3effff6bedc73cf9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fa1c8226b4532ad7011d295d3ab4ad45df105ae git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b1a242fe612a755f2158fd206ee6bb577d18ca git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e9f0a0717ba31d5842721627ade1e62d7aec012 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfe3e2f768d248fd3d965d561d0768a56dd0b9f8 git.kernel.org