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Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libperf  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBPERF-14684729
  • published26 Dec 2025
  • disclosed24 Dec 2025
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Introduced: 24 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-68741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-763  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libperf package and not the libperf package as distributed by RHEL.

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.