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CVE-2025-38545 (GCVE-0-2025-38545)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 11:22 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:02
VLAI
Title
net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix skb size by accounting for skb_shared_info
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix skb size by accounting for skb_shared_info While transitioning from netdev_alloc_ip_align() to build_skb(), memory for the "skb_shared_info" member of an "skb" was not allocated. Fix this by allocating "PAGE_SIZE" as the skb length, accounting for the packet length, headroom and tailroom, thereby including the required memory space for skb_shared_info.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 , < fc2fffa2facac15ce711e95f98f954426e025bc5 (git)
Affected: 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 , < 7d6ca0c8c0caf9a13cae2de763bb1f2a9ea7eabb (git)
Affected: 8acacc40f7337527ff84cd901ed2ef0a2b95b2b6 , < 02c4d6c26f1f662da8885b299c224ca6628ad232 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.39 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15.7 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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