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CVE-2025-37757

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2025-05-01 Modified: 2026-07-30

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_link_xmit In case the backlog transmit queue for system-importance messages is overloaded, tipc_link_xmit() returns -ENOBUFS but the skb list is not purged. This leads to memory leak and failure when a skb is allocated. This commit fixes this issue by purging the skb list before tipc_link_xmit() returns.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-401

References