7.8

CVE-2025-38500

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

xfrm: interface: fix use-after-free after changing collect_md xfrm interface

collect_md property on xfrm interfaces can only be set on device creation,
thus xfrmi_changelink() should fail when called on such interfaces.

The check to enforce this was done only in the case where the xi was
returned from xfrmi_locate() which doesn't look for the collect_md
interface, and thus the validation was never reached.

Calling changelink would thus errornously place the special interface xi
in the xfrmi_net->xfrmi hash, but since it also exists in the
xfrmi_net->collect_md_xfrmi pointer it would lead to a double free when
the net namespace was taken down [1].

Change the check to use the xi from netdev_priv which is available earlier
in the function to prevent changes in xfrm collect_md interfaces.

[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 <0f> 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]  <TASK>
[    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]  </TASK>
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.1 < 6.1.148
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.101
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.41
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.9
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc2
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc3
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc5
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc6
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.16 Updaterc7
DebianDebian Linux Version11.0
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.022
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.