CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-68814
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-01-13
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring: fix filename leak in __io_openat_prep()
__io_openat_prep() allocates a struct filename using getname(). However,
for the condition of the file being installed in the fixed file table as
well as having O_CLOEXEC flag set, the function returns early. At that
point, the request doesn't have REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP flag set. Due to this,
the memory for the newly allocated struct filename is not cleaned up,
causing a memory leak.
Fix this by setting the REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP for the request just after the
successful getname() call, so that when the request is torn down, the
filename will be cleaned up, along with other resources needing cleanup.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18b99fa603d0df5e1c898699c17d3b92ddc80746 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2420ef01b2e836fbc05a0a8c73a1016504eb0458 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fbfb85b05bc960cc50e09d03e5e562131e48d45 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f44c4a550570cd5903625133f938c6b51310c9b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b14fad555302a2104948feaff70503b64c80ac01 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e232269d511566b1f80872256a48593acc1becf4 git.kernel.org
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