medium5.5
CVE-2025-38432
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpo…
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming. udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 6.15 before 6.15.5 Version 6.16 |