CVE-2025-68288

Linux Kernel 4.17.0-6.17.10 Memory Leak via USB Bulk Transport

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: storage: Fix memory leak in USB bulk transport A kernel memory leak was identified by the 'ioctl_sg01' test from Linux Test Project (LTP). The following bytes were mainly observed: 0x53425355. When USB storage devices incorrectly skip the data phase with status data, the code extracts/validates the CSW from the sg buffer, but fails to clear it afterwards. This leaves status protocol data in srb's transfer buffer, such as the US_BULK_CS_SIGN 'USBS' signature observed here. Thus, this can lead to USB protocols leaks to user space through SCSI generic (/dev/sg*) interfaces, such as the one seen here when the LTP test requested 512 KiB. Fix the leak by zeroing the CSW data in srb's transfer buffer immediately after the validation of devices that skip data phase. Note: Differently from CVE-2018-1000204, which fixed a big leak by zero- ing pages at allocation time, this leak occurs after allocation, when USB protocol data is written to already-allocated sg pages.

Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.7%

Details

Status published
Products (34)
linux/Kernel 4.17.0 - 5.10.247linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.197linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.159linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.119linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.61linux
Linux/Linux < 4.17
Linux/Linux 3.16.58 - 3.17
Linux/Linux 3.18.110 - 3.19
Linux/Linux 39169410574503c6e901de1aa6eac5108475e017
... and 24 more
Published Dec 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026