CVE-2025-38190
kernel: atm: Revert atm_account_tx() if copy_from_iter_full() fails
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 4, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
atm: Revert atm_account_tx() if copy_from_iter_full() fails.
In vcc_sendmsg(), we account skb->truesize to sk->sk_wmem_alloc by atm_account_tx().
It is expected to be reverted by atm_pop_raw() later called by vcc->dev->ops->send(vcc, skb).
However, vcc_sendmsg() misses the same revert when copy_from_iter_full() fails, and then we will leak a socket.
Let's factorise the revert part as atm_return_tx() and call it in the failure path.
Note that the corresponding sk_wmem_alloc operation can be found in alloc_tx() as of the blamed commit.
$ git blame -L:alloc_tx net/atm/common.c c55fa3cccbc2c~
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime