NetSight
medium5.5

CVE-2025-37909

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lan743x: Fix memleak issue when GSO enabled Always map the `skb` to the LS descriptor.

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lan743x: Fix memleak issue when GSO enabled Always map the `skb` to the LS descriptor. Previously skb was mapped to EXT descriptor when the number of fragments is zero with GSO enabled. Mapping the skb to EXT descriptor prevents it from being freed, leading to a memory leak

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 4.17 before 5.4.294
from 5.5 before 5.10.238
from 5.11 before 5.15.182
from 5.16 before 6.1.138
from 6.2 before 6.6.90
from 6.7 before 6.12.28
DebianDebian Linux
Version 11.0

Weakness classification

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