CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38037
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vxlan: Annotate FDB data races
The 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be
accessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as
[1]. Can be reproduced using [2].
Suppress these reports by annotating these accesses using
READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().
[1]
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit
write to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0:
vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
__sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
__x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
read to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2:
vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
__sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
__x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
value changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -> 0x00000000fffbac6f
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014
[2]
#!/bin/bash
set +H
echo whitelist > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan
echo !vxlan_xmit > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan
ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1
bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1
taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &
taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.7 < 5.4.294)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.238)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.185)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.141)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.31)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.14.9)
• debian debian linux 11.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02a33b1035a307453a1da6ce0a1bf3676be287d7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13cba3f837903f7184d6e9b6137d5165ffe82a8f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4eceb7eae6ea7c950384c34e6dbbe872c981935f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/784b78295a3a58bf052339dd669e6e03710220d3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87d076987a9ba106c83412fcd113656f71af05a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6644aeb8ddf196dec5f8e782293c36f065df4d7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e033da39fc6abbddab6c29624acef80757f273fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6205f8215f12a96518ac9469ff76294ae7bd612 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory