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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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < a8d4748b954584ab7bd800f1a4e46d5b0eeb5ce4
Version abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0
Status affected
Version < bfebdb85496e1da21d3cf05de099210915c3e706
Version abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0
Status affected
Version < 5918c3f4800a3aef2173865e5903370f21e24f47
Version abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0
Status affected
Version < 69a31f7a6a81f5ffd3812c442e09ff0be22960f1
Version abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0
Status affected
Version < a90b2a1aaacbcf0f91d7e4868ad6c51c5dee814b
Version abc340b38ba25cd6c7aa2c0bd9150d30738c82d0
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.1
Status affected
Version < 6.1
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.148
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.101
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.41
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.9
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.02% 0.022
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
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.