Bug 2348514 (CVE-2025-21757)

Summary: CVE-2025-21757 kernel: net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels
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[REJECTED CVE] 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.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 03:01:25 UTC
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.

Comment 3 TEJ RATHI 2025-05-15 07:47:28 UTC
This CVE has been rejected upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032455-REJECTED-9f08@gregkh/