5.5

CVE-2025-38735

gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown

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

gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown

A crash can occur if an ethtool operation is invoked
after shutdown() is called.

shutdown() is invoked during system shutdown to stop DMA operations
without performing expensive deallocations. It is discouraged to
unregister the netdev in this path, so the device may still be visible
to userspace and kernel helpers.

In gve, shutdown() tears down most internal data structures. If an
ethtool operation is dispatched after shutdown(), it will dereference
freed or NULL pointers, leading to a kernel panic. While graceful
shutdown normally quiesces userspace before invoking the reboot
syscall, forced shutdowns (as observed on GCP VMs) can still trigger
this path.

Fix by calling netif_device_detach() in shutdown().
This marks the device as detached so the ethtool ioctl handler
will skip dispatching operations to the driver.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.17 < 6.1.149
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.103
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.44
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.16.4
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.17 Updaterc1
LinuxLinux Kernel Version6.17 Updaterc2
DebianDebian Linux Version11.0
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.15% 0.043
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48a4e89d50e8ea52e800bc7865970b92fcf4647c
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba51d73408edf815cbaeab148625576c2dd90192
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7efffeecb881b4649fdc30de020ef910f35d646
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d8a41e9a4ff83ff666de811e7f012167cdc00e9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75a9a46d67f46d608205888f9b34e315c1786345
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
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