vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2025-21891): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Added
May 21, 2025
Modified
May 29, 2025

Description

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

ipvlan: ensure network headers are in skb linear part

syzbot found that ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() was assuming
the IPv6 network header isis present in skb->head [1]

Add the needed pskb_network_may_pull() calls for both
IPv4 and IPv6 handlers.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47
__ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47
ipv6_addr_type include/net/ipv6.h:555 [inline]
ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2616 [inline]
ip6_route_output_flags+0x51/0x720 net/ipv6/route.c:2651
ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:93 [inline]
ipvlan_route_v6_outbound+0x24e/0x520 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:476
ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:491 [inline]
ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:541 [inline]
ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:605 [inline]
ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xd72/0x1780 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:671
ipvlan_start_xmit+0x5b/0x210 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:223
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5150 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5159 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3735 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa20 net/core/dev.c:3751
sch_direct_xmit+0x399/0xd40 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:408 [inline]
__qdisc_run+0x14da/0x35d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:416
qdisc_run+0x141/0x4d0 include/net/pkt_sched.h:127
net_tx_action+0x78b/0x940 net/core/dev.c:5484
handle_softirqs+0x1a0/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:561
__do_softirq+0x14/0x1a kernel/softirq.c:595
do_softirq+0x9a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:462
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x9f/0xb0 kernel/softirq.c:389
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:919 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2758/0x57d0 net/core/dev.c:4611
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3311 [inline]
packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276
packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3132 [inline]
packet_sendmsg+0x93e0/0xa7e0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3164
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]

Solution(s)

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