{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2025-38500", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.022Z", "datePublished": "2025-08-12T16:02:42.363Z", "dateUpdated": "2025-08-12T16:02:42.363Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2025-08-12T16:02:42.363Z"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface\n\ncollect_md property on xfrm interfaces can only be set on device creation,\nthus xfrmi_changelink() should fail when called on such interfaces.\n\nThe check to enforce this was done only in the case where the xi was\nreturned from xfrmi_locate() which doesn't look for the collect_md\ninterface, and thus the validation was never reached.\n\nCalling changelink would thus errornously place the special interface xi\nin the xfrmi_net->xfrmi hash, but since it also exists in the\nxfrmi_net->collect_md_xfrmi pointer it would lead to a double free when\nthe net namespace was taken down [1].\n\nChange the check to use the xi from netdev_priv which is available earlier\nin the function to prevent changes in xfrm collect_md interfaces.\n\n[1] resulting oops:\n[ 8.516540] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12029!\n[ 8.516552] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[ 8.516559] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-virtme #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 8.516565] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[ 8.516569] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net\n[ 8.516579] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x101/0xab0\n[ 8.516590] Code: 90 0f 0b 90 48 8b b0 78 01 00 00 48 8b 90 80 01 00 00 48 89 56 08 48 89 32 4c 89 80 78 01 00 00 48 89 b8 80 01 00 00 eb ac 90 <0f> 0b 48 8b 45 00 4c 8d a0 88 fe ff ff 48 39 c5 74 5c 41 80 bc 24\n[ 8.516593] RSP: 0018:ffffa93b8006bd30 EFLAGS: 00010206\n[ 8.516598] RAX: ffff98fe4226e000 RBX: ffffa93b8006bd58 RCX: ffffa93b8006bc60\n[ 8.516601] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: dead000000000122\n[ 8.516603] RBP: ffffa93b8006bdd8 R08: dead000000000100 R09: ffff98fe4133c100\n[ 8.516605] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000003d2 R12: ffffa93b8006be00\n[ 8.516608] R13: ffffffff96c1a510 R14: ffffffff96c1a510 R15: ffffa93b8006be00\n[ 8.516615] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98fee73b7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 8.516619] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 8.516622] CR2: 00007fcd2abd0700 CR3: 000000003aa40000 CR4: 0000000000752ef0\n[ 8.516625] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 8.516627] Call Trace:\n[ 8.516632] <TASK>\n[ 8.516635] ? rtnl_is_locked+0x15/0x20\n[ 8.516641] ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x29/0xf0\n[ 8.516650] ops_undo_list+0x1f2/0x220\n[ 8.516659] cleanup_net+0x1ad/0x2e0\n[ 8.516664] process_one_work+0x160/0x380\n[ 8.516673] worker_thread+0x2aa/0x3c0\n[ 8.516679] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516686] kthread+0xfb/0x200\n[ 8.516690] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516693] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516697] ret_from_fork+0x82/0xf0\n[ 8.516705] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516709] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 8.516718] </TASK>"}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c"], "versions": [{"version": "abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0", "lessThan": "bfebdb85496e1da21d3cf05de099210915c3e706", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0", "lessThan": "5918c3f4800a3aef2173865e5903370f21e24f47", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0", "lessThan": "69a31f7a6a81f5ffd3812c442e09ff0be22960f1", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0", "lessThan": "a90b2a1aaacbcf0f91d7e4868ad6c51c5dee814b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["net/xfrm/xfrm_interface_core.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.1", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.1", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.101", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.41", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.15.9", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.16", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.101"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.41"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1", "versionEndExcluding": "6.15.9"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.1", "versionEndExcluding": "6.16"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfebdb85496e1da21d3cf05de099210915c3e706"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5918c3f4800a3aef2173865e5903370f21e24f47"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69a31f7a6a81f5ffd3812c442e09ff0be22960f1"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a90b2a1aaacbcf0f91d7e4868ad6c51c5dee814b"}], "title": "xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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{"cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface\n\ncollect_md property on xfrm interfaces can only be set on device creation,\nthus xfrmi_changelink() should fail when called on such interfaces.\n\nThe check to enforce this was done only in the case where the xi was\nreturned from xfrmi_locate() which doesn't look for the collect_md\ninterface, and thus the validation was never reached.\n\nCalling changelink would thus errornously place the special interface xi\nin the xfrmi_net->xfrmi hash, but since it also exists in the\nxfrmi_net->collect_md_xfrmi pointer it would lead to a double free when\nthe net namespace was taken down [1].\n\nChange the check to use the xi from netdev_priv which is available earlier\nin the function to prevent changes in xfrm collect_md interfaces.\n\n[1] resulting oops:\n[ 8.516540] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12029!\n[ 8.516552] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[ 8.516559] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-virtme #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[ 8.516565] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[ 8.516569] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net\n[ 8.516579] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x101/0xab0\n[ 8.516590] Code: 90 0f 0b 90 48 8b b0 78 01 00 00 48 8b 90 80 01 00 00 48 89 56 08 48 89 32 4c 89 80 78 01 00 00 48 89 b8 80 01 00 00 eb ac 90 <0f> 0b 48 8b 45 00 4c 8d a0 88 fe ff ff 48 39 c5 74 5c 41 80 bc 24\n[ 8.516593] RSP: 0018:ffffa93b8006bd30 EFLAGS: 00010206\n[ 8.516598] RAX: ffff98fe4226e000 RBX: ffffa93b8006bd58 RCX: ffffa93b8006bc60\n[ 8.516601] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: dead000000000122\n[ 8.516603] RBP: ffffa93b8006bdd8 R08: dead000000000100 R09: ffff98fe4133c100\n[ 8.516605] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000003d2 R12: ffffa93b8006be00\n[ 8.516608] R13: ffffffff96c1a510 R14: ffffffff96c1a510 R15: ffffa93b8006be00\n[ 8.516615] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98fee73b7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[ 8.516619] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[ 8.516622] CR2: 00007fcd2abd0700 CR3: 000000003aa40000 CR4: 0000000000752ef0\n[ 8.516625] PKRU: 55555554\n[ 8.516627] Call Trace:\n[ 8.516632] <TASK>\n[ 8.516635] ? rtnl_is_locked+0x15/0x20\n[ 8.516641] ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x29/0xf0\n[ 8.516650] ops_undo_list+0x1f2/0x220\n[ 8.516659] cleanup_net+0x1ad/0x2e0\n[ 8.516664] process_one_work+0x160/0x380\n[ 8.516673] worker_thread+0x2aa/0x3c0\n[ 8.516679] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516686] kthread+0xfb/0x200\n[ 8.516690] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516693] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516697] ret_from_fork+0x82/0xf0\n[ 8.516705] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n[ 8.516709] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n[ 8.516718] </TASK>"}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: xfrm: interfaz: se corrige el Use After Free despu\u00e9s de cambiar la propiedad collect_md de la interfaz xfrm. Las interfaces xfrm solo se pueden configurar al crear el dispositivo, por lo que xfrmi_changelink() deber\u00eda fallar al llamarse en dichas interfaces. La comprobaci\u00f3n para aplicar esto solo se realiz\u00f3 en el caso en que xi se devolviera desde xfrmi_locate(), que no busca la interfaz collect_md y, por lo tanto, nunca se alcanz\u00f3 la validaci\u00f3n. Llamar a changelink colocar\u00eda por error la interfaz especial xi en el hash xfrmi_net-&gt;xfrmi, pero como tambi\u00e9n existe en el puntero xfrmi_net-&gt;collect_md_xfrmi, provocar\u00eda una doble liberaci\u00f3n cuando se eliminara el espacio de nombres net [1]. Cambie la comprobaci\u00f3n para usar xi de netdev_priv, que est\u00e1 disponible anteriormente en la funci\u00f3n, para evitar cambios en las interfaces xfrm collect_md. [1] resulting oops: [ 8.516540] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:12029! [ 8.516552] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 8.516559] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u80:0 Not tainted 6.15.0-virtme #5 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 8.516565] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 8.516569] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [ 8.516579] RIP: 0010:unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x101/0xab0 [ 8.516590] Code: 90 0f 0b 90 48 8b b0 78 01 00 00 48 8b 90 80 01 00 00 48 89 56 08 48 89 32 4c 89 80 78 01 00 00 48 89 b8 80 01 00 00 eb ac 90 &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 8b 45 00 4c 8d a0 88 fe ff ff 48 39 c5 74 5c 41 80 bc 24 [ 8.516593] RSP: 0018:ffffa93b8006bd30 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 8.516598] RAX: ffff98fe4226e000 RBX: ffffa93b8006bd58 RCX: ffffa93b8006bc60 [ 8.516601] RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: dead000000000122 [ 8.516603] RBP: ffffa93b8006bdd8 R08: dead000000000100 R09: ffff98fe4133c100 [ 8.516605] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000003d2 R12: ffffa93b8006be00 [ 8.516608] R13: ffffffff96c1a510 R14: ffffffff96c1a510 R15: ffffa93b8006be00 [ 8.516615] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98fee73b7000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 8.516619] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 8.516622] CR2: 00007fcd2abd0700 CR3: 000000003aa40000 CR4: 0000000000752ef0 [ 8.516625] PKRU: 55555554 [ 8.516627] Call Trace: [ 8.516632] [ 8.516635] ? rtnl_is_locked+0x15/0x20 [ 8.516641] ? unregister_netdevice_queue+0x29/0xf0 [ 8.516650] ops_undo_list+0x1f2/0x220 [ 8.516659] cleanup_net+0x1ad/0x2e0 [ 8.516664] process_one_work+0x160/0x380 [ 8.516673] worker_thread+0x2aa/0x3c0 [ 8.516679] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516686] kthread+0xfb/0x200 [ 8.516690] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516693] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516697] ret_from_fork+0x82/0xf0 [ 8.516705] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 8.516709] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [ 8.516718] "}], "id": "CVE-2025-38500", "lastModified": "2025-08-13T17:34:12.350", "metrics": {}, "published": "2025-08-12T16:15:27.277", "references": [{"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5918c3f4800a3aef2173865e5903370f21e24f47"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69a31f7a6a81f5ffd3812c442e09ff0be22960f1"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a90b2a1aaacbcf0f91d7e4868ad6c51c5dee814b"}, {"source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfebdb85496e1da21d3cf05de099210915c3e706"}], "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"}

{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface", "id": "2387866", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2387866"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["No description is available for this CVE."], "name": "CVE-2025-38500", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-08-12T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38500\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38500\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025081245-CVE-2025-38500-7e22@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Important"}