CVE-2025-21757

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels dst_cache_get() gives us a reference, we need to release it. Discovered by the ioam6.sh test, kmemleak was recently fixed to catch per-cpu memory leaks.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d90f8f930c3053bb11f5def9aff5310a70429260

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c71a192976ded2f2f416d03c4f595cdd4478b825

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2248b8145053eb2ae35ca4cf694b885a086719bb

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-02-27

Updated: 2025-02-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium