CVE-2025-68348
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
24/12/2025
Last modified:
15/04/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
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block: fix memory leak in __blkdev_issue_zero_pages<br />
<br />
Move the fatal signal check before bio_alloc() to prevent a memory<br />
leak when BLKDEV_ZERO_KILLABLE is set and a fatal signal is pending.<br />
<br />
Previously, the bio was allocated before checking for a fatal signal.<br />
If a signal was pending, the code would break out of the loop without<br />
freeing or chaining the just-allocated bio, causing a memory leak.<br />
<br />
This matches the pattern already used in __blkdev_issue_write_zeroes()<br />
where the signal check precedes the allocation.



