vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-21925
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Apr 1, 2025 | Oct 13, 2025 | Oct 23, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 1, 2025
Added
Oct 13, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
llc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()
syzbot is able to crash hosts [1], using llc and devices
not supporting IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING.
In this case, e1000 driver calls eth_skb_pad(), while
the skb is shared.
Simply replace skb_get() by skb_clone() in net/llc/llc_s_ac.c
Note that e1000 driver might have an issue with pktgen,
because it does not clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING, this is an
orthogonal change.
We need to audit other skb_get() uses in net/llc.
[1]
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16371 Comm: syz.2.2764 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00052-gac9c34d1e45a #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0x6ce/0x1240 net/core/skbuff.c:2178
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__skb_pad+0x18a/0x610 net/core/skbuff.c:2466
__skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3843 [inline]
skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3862 [inline]
eth_skb_pad include/linux/etherdevice.h:656 [inline]
e1000_xmit_frame+0x2d99/0x5800 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3128
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3806 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3822
sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
__dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4045 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4621
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3313 [inline]
llc_sap_action_send_test_c+0x268/0x320 net/llc/llc_s_ac.c:144
llc_exec_sap_trans_actions net/llc/llc_sap.c:153 [inline]
llc_sap_next_state net/llc/llc_sap.c:182 [inline]
llc_sap_state_process+0x239/0x510 net/llc/llc_sap.c:209
llc_ui_sendmsg+0xd0d/0x14e0 net/llc/af_llc.c:993
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
llc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()
syzbot is able to crash hosts [1], using llc and devices
not supporting IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING.
In this case, e1000 driver calls eth_skb_pad(), while
the skb is shared.
Simply replace skb_get() by skb_clone() in net/llc/llc_s_ac.c
Note that e1000 driver might have an issue with pktgen,
because it does not clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING, this is an
orthogonal change.
We need to audit other skb_get() uses in net/llc.
[1]
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16371 Comm: syz.2.2764 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00052-gac9c34d1e45a #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0x6ce/0x1240 net/core/skbuff.c:2178
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__skb_pad+0x18a/0x610 net/core/skbuff.c:2466
__skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3843 [inline]
skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3862 [inline]
eth_skb_pad include/linux/etherdevice.h:656 [inline]
e1000_xmit_frame+0x2d99/0x5800 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3128
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3806 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3822
sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
__dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4045 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4621
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3313 [inline]
llc_sap_action_send_test_c+0x268/0x320 net/llc/llc_s_ac.c:144
llc_exec_sap_trans_actions net/llc/llc_sap.c:153 [inline]
llc_sap_next_state net/llc/llc_sap.c:182 [inline]
llc_sap_state_process+0x239/0x510 net/llc/llc_sap.c:209
llc_ui_sendmsg+0xd0d/0x14e0 net/llc/af_llc.c:993
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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