CVE-2025-68741

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2025-12-24. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item

In qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb(), an item is allocated via qla27xx_copy_multiple_pkt(), which internally calls qla24xx_alloc_purex_item().

The qla24xx_alloc_purex_item() function may return a pre-allocated item from a per-adapter pool for small allocations, instead of dynamically allocating memory with kzalloc().

An error handling path in qla2xxx_process_purls_iocb() incorrectly uses kfree() to release the item. If the item was from the pre-allocated pool, calling kfree() on it is a bug that can lead to memory corruption.

Fix this by using the correct deallocation function, qla24xx_free_purex_item(), which properly handles both dynamically allocated and pre-allocated items.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
44
EG Risk 44/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
The EG Score, 9.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
35th
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 24, 2025

Last Modified

October 13, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Oct 13, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfe3e2f768d248fd3d965d561d0768a56dd0b9f8
Web page

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e9f0a0717ba31d5842721627ade1e62d7aec012
Web page

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78b1a242fe612a755f2158fd206ee6bb577d18ca
Web page

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fa1c8226b4532ad7011d295d3ab4ad45df105ae
Web page

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bccd506a1f1ab01d1f45b2a3effff6bedc73cf9

Patch Availability(30)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-hwe-24.04-edge (6.17.0-1008.9~24.04.1) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oem-6.17 (6.17.0-1017.17) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1051.54) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1054.60) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-6.8.1 (6.8.1-1047.48) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-lowlatency-64k-6.8 (6.8.0-1051.54.1) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-1054.60+fips1) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-oracle-lts-24.04 (6.8.0-1049.50) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-nvidia-tegra-rt-6.8 (6.8.0-1022.22) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-fips-6.8 (6.8.0-1054.57+fips1) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.8 (6.8.0-1052.56) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-edge (6.8.0-1059.65~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-6.17 (6.17.0-1010.10) @ questing2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-raspi-realtime-6.8 (6.8.0-2042.43) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-xilinx-zynqmp (6.8.0.1029.30) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-gcp-edge (6.8.0-1054.57~22.04.1) @ jammy2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-hwe-24.04-edge (6.17.0-19.19~24.04.2) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-realtime-hwe-24.04-edge (6.17.0-1008.9) @ questing2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-tools-azure-6.17 (6.17.0-1010.10) @ questing2026-10-14ubuntu
ubuntulinux-virtual-6.8 (6.8.0-110.110) @ noble2026-10-14ubuntu
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-427.127.1.el9_42026-05-27redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-211.16.1.el10_22026-05-20redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-687.10.1.el9_82026-05-20redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-570.112.1.el9_62026-05-06redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-55.70.1.el10_02026-04-27redhat
redhatkernel-0:6.12.0-124.52.1.el10_12026-04-21redhat
redhatkernel-0:4.18.0-553.120.1.el8_102026-04-20redhat
redhatkernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.120.1.rt7.461.el8_102026-04-20redhat
redhatkernel-0:5.14.0-611.49.1.el9_72026-04-20redhat
linuxKernel @ 6.6.120 (fixes >=6.6.0)—osv

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 2 ecosystems)
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.38-1 ... 6.12.63-1~bpo12+1 (8 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.63-1: fixed in 6.12.63-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.17.9-1 (85 versions)
  • every version up to 6.17.13-1: fixed in 6.17.13-1
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Additional Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 37× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 225 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 126 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  2. 2026-10-14 11:51 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-14 11:51 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-14 11:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  6. 2026-10-13 10:27 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-13 10:27 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-13 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-12 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  11. 2026-10-12 10:11 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-12 10:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-11 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
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  14. 2026-09-14 05:20 UTCOSV refresh
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  46. 2026-08-09 22:42 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-08-09 22:42 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-08-09 22:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  49. 2026-08-09 13:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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  51. 2026-08-08 09:33 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-08-08 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-08-08 05:14 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-08-08 05:14 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-08-08 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  56. 2026-08-07 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
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  58. 2026-08-06 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-06 07:06 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-06 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  61. 2026-08-05 19:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  62. 2026-08-05 12:47 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-08-05 12:47 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-08-05 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  71. 2026-07-30 06:45 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-07-30 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mjw3-rr6r-w9h2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  73. 2026-07-30 06:21 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 9.8 CRITICAL
  74. 2026-07-30 06:21 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2025-68741?
CVE-2025-68741 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 24, 2025. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item In qla2xxxprocesspurls_iocb(), an item is allocated via qla27xxcopymultiple_pkt(), which internally calls qla24xxallocpurex_item(). The qla24xxallocpurex_item() function may return…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2025-68741 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2025-68741 was published on December 24, 2025. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 13, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2025-68741 actively exploited?
CVE-2025-68741 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (35th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2025-68741?
CVE-2025-68741 has a CVSS base score of 9.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2025-68741?
A fix for CVE-2025-68741 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2025-68741 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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