{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68247 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-68247 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-68247 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-68247 is a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68247 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68247/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68247/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-68247","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68247/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-68247","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-68247","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68247","GHSA-8v9m-p9fp-7pw5","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-68247"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a memory leak in the Linux kernel's posix timer creation, potentially leading to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nposix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create()\n\nWhen posix timer creation is set to allocate a given timer ID and the\naccess to the user space value faults, the function terminates without\nfreeing the already allocated posix timer structure.\n\nMove the allocation after the user space access to cure that.\n\n[ tglx: Massaged change log ]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"posix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create()","id":"CVE-2025-68247","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"vmw_balloon: indicate success when effectively deflating during migration","id":"CVE-2025-68248"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ksmbd: close accepted socket when per-IP limit rejects connection","id":"CVE-2025-68246"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a memory leak in the Linux kernel's posix timer creation, potentially leading to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-68247/"}