CVE-2025-21759 (GCVE-0-2025-21759)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-27 02:18 – Updated: 2026-10-03 10:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: mcast: extend RCU protection in igmp6_send()
igmp6_send() can be called without RTNL or RCU being held.
Extend RCU protection so that we can safely fetch the net pointer
and avoid a potential UAF.
Note that we no longer can use sock_alloc_send_skb() because
ipv6.igmp_sk uses GFP_KERNEL allocations which can sleep.
Instead use alloc_skb() and charge the net->ipv6.igmp_sk
socket under RCU protection.
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-27 17:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 638e8fe3563a82f298fe537a28d5342a97278cf1
(git)
Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 6901bbb169e3add6c037218d996790cef6b3d650 (git) Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 7e0a818ecc4d62e7fb668ea02de0bfe8ba0b7dff (git) Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 81b25a07ebf53f9ef4ca8f3d96a8ddb94561dd5a (git) Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 0bf8e2f3768629d437a32cb824149e6e98254381 (git) Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 8e92d6a413feaf968a33f0b439ecf27404407458 (git) Affected: b8ad0cbc58f703972e9e37c4e2a8081dd7e6a551 , < 087c1faa594fa07a66933d750c0b2610aa1a2946 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.26
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.26 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.271 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.79 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.16 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13.4 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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