CVE-2025-68741 (GCVE-0-2025-68741)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 12:09 – Updated: 2026-01-11 16:30
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Title
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 4bccd506a1f1ab01d1f45b2a3effff6bedc73cf9 (git)
Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 8e9f0a0717ba31d5842721627ade1e62d7aec012 (git)
Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < cfe3e2f768d248fd3d965d561d0768a56dd0b9f8 (git)
Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 5fa1c8226b4532ad7011d295d3ab4ad45df105ae (git)
Affected: 875386b98857822b77ac7f95bdf367b70af5b78c , < 78b1a242fe612a755f2158fd206ee6bb577d18ca (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.120 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.63 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.13 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.2 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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