CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38587
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- 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-835
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
fib6_info_uses_dev() seems to rely on RCU without an explicit
protection.
Like the prior fix in rt6_nlmsg_size(),
we need to make sure fib6_del_route() or fib6_add_rt2node()
have not removed the anchor from the list, or we risk an infinite loop.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.128 < 6.1.148)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.75 < 6.6.102)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11.11 < 6.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.2 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16d21816c0918f8058b5fc14cbe8595d62046e2d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cb6de8ee144a94ae7a40bdb32560329ab7276f0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc85e62394f008fa848c4ba02c936c735a3e8ef5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db65739d406c72776fbdbbc334be827ef05880d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e09be457b71b983a085312ff9e981f51e4ed3211 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8d8ce1b515a0a6af72b30502670a406cfb75073 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory