UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37908

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slab: clean up slab-objexts always When memory allocation profiling is disabled at runtime or due to an error, shutdownmemprofiling is called: slab-objexts which previously allocated remains. It won't be cleared by...

CVE-2025-37908 mm, slab: clean up slab->obj_exts always

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slab: clean up slab-objexts always When memory allocation profiling is disabled at runtime or due to an error, shutdownmemprofiling is called: slab-objexts which previously allocated remains. It won't be cleared by...

CVE-2025-37908

The CVE-2025-37908 issue affects the Linux kernel’s memory allocator slab subsystem. Root cause: slab->obj_exts was not reliably cleared during unaccount_slab() when mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() is false, allowing residual allocations to persist after shutdown_mem_profiling(). This can trigge...