CVE-2025-68247 (GCVE-0-2025-68247)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-16 14:21
Modified
2025-12-16 14:21
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create() When posix timer creation is set to allocate a given timer ID and the access to the user space value faults, the function terminates without freeing the already allocated posix timer structure. Move the allocation after the user space access to cure that. [ tglx: Massaged change log ]
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Linux Linux Version: ec2d0c04624b3c8a7eb1682e006717fa20cfbe24
Version: ec2d0c04624b3c8a7eb1682e006717fa20cfbe24
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