Memory Leak Affecting linux-virt package, versions <6.12.40-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-LINUXVIRT-14059083
  • published20 Nov 2025
  • disclosed16 Aug 2025

Introduced: 16 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-38545  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest linux-virt to version 6.12.40-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-virt package and not the linux-virt package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix skb size by accounting for skb_shared_info

While transitioning from netdev_alloc_ip_align() to build_skb(), memory for the "skb_shared_info" member of an "skb" was not allocated. Fix this by allocating "PAGE_SIZE" as the skb length, accounting for the packet length, headroom and tailroom, thereby including the required memory space for skb_shared_info.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1