vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-21763: kernel: neighbour: use RCU protection in __neigh_notify()

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

neighbour: use RCU protection in __neigh_notify()

__neigh_notify() can be called without RTNL or RCU protection.

Use RCU protection to avoid potential UAF.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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