CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38441
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-25
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()
syzbot found a potential access to uninit-value in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()
Blamed commit forgot the Ethernet header.
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27
nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xe1/0x3d0 net/netfilter/core.c:623
nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]
nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5742 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb_core+0x4aff/0x70c0 net/core/dev.c:5837
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5975 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6090
netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6176 [inline]
netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x630 net/core/dev.c:6235
tun_rx_batched+0x1df/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1485
tun_get_user+0x4ee0/0x6b40 drivers/net/tun.c:1938
tun_chr_write_iter+0x3e9/0x5c0 drivers/net/tun.c:1984
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0xb4b/0x1580 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write fs/read_write.c:738 [inline]
__do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.157 < 5.15.189)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.88 < 6.1.146)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.29 < 6.6.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8.8 < 6.9)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9.1 < 6.12.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.9
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18cdb3d982da8976b28d57691eb256ec5688fad2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fbc49429a23b02595ba82536c5ea425fdabb221 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3aea97d55964e70a1e6426aa4cafdc036e8a2dd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfbf0665969af2c69d10c377d4c3d306e717efb4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eed8960b289327235185b7c32649c3470a3e969b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory