7.1

CVE-2025-21920

vlan: enforce underlying device type

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vlan: enforce underlying device type

Currently, VLAN devices can be created on top of non-ethernet devices.

Besides the fact that it doesn't make much sense, this also causes a
bug which leaks the address of a kernel function to usermode.

When creating a VLAN device, we initialize GARP (garp_init_applicant)
and MRP (mrp_init_applicant) for the underlying device.

As part of the initialization process, we add the multicast address of
each applicant to the underlying device, by calling dev_mc_add.

__dev_mc_add uses dev->addr_len to determine the length of the new
multicast address.

This causes an out-of-bounds read if dev->addr_len is greater than 6,
since the multicast addresses provided by GARP and MRP are only 6
bytes long.

This behaviour can be reproduced using the following commands:

ip tunnel add gretest mode ip6gre local ::1 remote ::2 dev lo
ip l set up dev gretest
ip link add link gretest name vlantest type vlan id 100

Then, the following command will display the address of garp_pdu_rcv:

ip maddr show | grep 01:80:c2:00:00:21

Fix the bug by enforcing the type of the underlying device during VLAN
device initialization.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 2.6.35 < 5.4.291
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.235
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.179
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.131
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.83
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.19
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.13.7
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.14 Updaterc5
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.2% 0.102
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fb7aa04c19eac4417f360a9f7611a60637bdacc
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30e8aee77899173a82ae5ed89f536c096f20aaeb
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3561442599804905c3defca241787cd4546e99a7
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a515d13e15536e82c5c7c83eb6cf5bc4827fee5
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f1564b2b2072b7aa1ac75350e9560a07c7a44fd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b33a534610067ade2bdaf2052900aaad99701353
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6c72479748b7ea09f53ed64b223cee6463dc278
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa40ebef69234e39ec2d26930d045f2fb9a8cb2b
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html