CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38683
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hv_netvsc: Fix panic during namespace deletion with VF
The existing code move the VF NIC to new namespace when NETDEV_REGISTER is
received on netvsc NIC. During deletion of the namespace,
default_device_exit_batch() >> default_device_exit_net() is called. When
netvsc NIC is moved back and registered to the default namespace, it
automatically brings VF NIC back to the default namespace. This will cause
the default_device_exit_net() >> for_each_netdev_safe loop unable to detect
the list end, and hit NULL ptr:
[ 231.449420] mana 7870:00:00.0 enP30832s1: Moved VF to namespace with: eth0
[ 231.449656] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[ 231.450246] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 231.450579] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 231.450916] PGD 17b8a8067 P4D 0
[ 231.451163] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 231.451450] CPU: 82 UID: 0 PID: 1394 Comm: kworker/u768:1 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #3 VOLUNTARY
[ 231.452042] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/21/2024
[ 231.452692] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
[ 231.452947] RIP: 0010:default_device_exit_batch+0x16c/0x3f0
[ 231.453326] Code: c0 0c f5 b3 e8 d5 db fe ff 48 85 c0 74 15 48 c7 c2 f8 fd ca b2 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 7d c0 e8 7b 77 25 00 49 8b 86 28 01 00 00 <48> 8b 50 10 4c 8b 2a 4c 8d 62 f0 49 83 ed 10 4c 39 e0 0f 84 d6 00
[ 231.454294] RSP: 0018:ff75fc7c9bf9fd00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 231.454610] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 61c8864680b583eb
[ 231.455094] RDX: ff1fa9f71462d800 RSI: ff75fc7c9bf9fd38 RDI: 0000000030766564
[ 231.455686] RBP: ff75fc7c9bf9fd78 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 231.456126] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: ff1fa9f70088e340
[ 231.456621] R13: ff1fa9f70088e340 R14: ffffffffb3f50c20 R15: ff1fa9f7103e6340
[ 231.457161] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff1faa6783a08000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 231.457707] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 231.458031] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 0000000179ab2006 CR4: 0000000000b73ef0
[ 231.458434] Call Trace:
[ 231.458600] <TASK>
[ 231.458777] ops_undo_list+0x100/0x220
[ 231.459015] cleanup_net+0x1b8/0x300
[ 231.459285] process_one_work+0x184/0x340
To fix it, move the ns change to a workqueue, and take rtnl_lock to avoid
changing the netdev list when default_device_exit_net() is using it.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.19.323 < 4.20)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.285 < 5.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.229 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.170 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.115 < 6.1.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.59 < 6.6.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11.6 < 6.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.1 < 6.12.43)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.2)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
• linux linux kernel 6.17
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a70cbd1aef8b8be39992ab7b776ce1390091774 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33caa208dba6fa639e8a92fd0c8320b652e5550c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3467c4ebb334658c6fcf3eabb64a6e8b2135e010 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca41ab55d23a0aa71661a5a56a8f06c11db90dc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4293f6c5ccf735b26afeb6825def14d830e0367b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4eff1e57a8ef98d70451b94e8437e458b27dd234 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5276896e6923ebe8c68573779d784aaf7d987cce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d036104947176d030bec64792d54e1b4f4c7f318 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
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com