medium5.5
CVE-2025-38588
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() While testing prior patch, I was able to tr…
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() While testing prior patch, I was able to trigger an infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() in the following place: list_for_each_entry_rcu(sibling, &f6i->fib6_siblings, fib6_siblings) { rt6_nh_nlmsg_size(sibling->fib6_nh, &nexthop_len); } This is because fib6_del_route() and fib6_add_rt2node() uses list_del_rcu(), which can confuse rcu readers, because they might no longer see the head of the list. Restart the loop if f6i->fib6_nsiblings is zero.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 6.1.128 before 6.1.148 from 6.6.75 before 6.6.102 from 6.11.11 before 6.12 from 6.12.2 before 6.12.42 from 6.13 before 6.15.10 from 6.16 before 6.16.1 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 11.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c13db3e47e170bab19e574404e7b6be45ea873d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46aeb66e9e54ed0d56c18615e1c3dbd502b327ab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54e6fe9dd3b0e7c481c2228782c9494d653546da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d345136c9b875f065d226908a29c25cdf9343f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8d8bbd9ced4cc5d06d858f67d4aa87745e8f38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b7932af47f92432be8303d2439d1bf77b0be23
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html