CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21759
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()
igmp6_send() can be called without RTNL or RCU being held.
Extend RCU protection so that we can safely fetch the net pointer
and avoid a potential UAF.
Note that we no longer can use sock_alloc_send_skb() because
ipv6.igmp_sk uses GFP_KERNEL allocations which can sleep.
Instead use alloc_skb() and charge the net->ipv6.igmp_sk
socket under RCU protection.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.26 < 6.6.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.4)
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/087c1faa594fa07a66933d750c0b2610aa1a2946 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf8e2f3768629d437a32cb824149e6e98254381 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/638e8fe3563a82f298fe537a28d5342a97278cf1 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6901bbb169e3add6c037218d996790cef6b3d650 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e0a818ecc4d62e7fb668ea02de0bfe8ba0b7dff git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81b25a07ebf53f9ef4ca8f3d96a8ddb94561dd5a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8e92d6a413feaf968a33f0b439ecf27404407458 Patch