CVE-2025-38587 (GCVE-0-2025-38587)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:03 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:00
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Title
ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev() fib6_info_uses_dev() seems to rely on RCU without an explicit protection. Like the prior fix in rt6_nlmsg_size(), we need to make sure fib6_del_route() or fib6_add_rt2node() have not removed the anchor from the list, or we risk an infinite loop.
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Linux Linux Affected: d0ec61c9f3583b76aebdbb271f5c0d3fcccd48b2 , < bc85e62394f008fa848c4ba02c936c735a3e8ef5 (git)
Affected: 52da02521ede55fb86546c3fffd9377b3261b91f , < 9cb6de8ee144a94ae7a40bdb32560329ab7276f0 (git)
Affected: 34a949e7a0869dfa31a40416d2a56973fae1807b , < db65739d406c72776fbdbbc334be827ef05880d2 (git)
Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < 16d21816c0918f8058b5fc14cbe8595d62046e2d (git)
Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < e09be457b71b983a085312ff9e981f51e4ed3211 (git)
Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < f8d8ce1b515a0a6af72b30502670a406cfb75073 (git)
Affected: 11edcd026012ac18acee0f1514db3ed1b160fc6f (git)
Affected: 6.1.128 , < 6.1.148 (semver)
Affected: 6.6.75 , < 6.6.102 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.2 , < 6.12.42 (semver)
Affected: 6.11.11 , < 6.12 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.148 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.102 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.42 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.10 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.1 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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