CVE-2025-38588 (GCVE-0-2025-38588)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 17:03 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d0ec61c9f3583b76aebdbb271f5c0d3fcccd48b2 , < 6d345136c9b875f065d226908a29c25cdf9343f8
(git)
Affected: 52da02521ede55fb86546c3fffd9377b3261b91f , < e1b7932af47f92432be8303d2439d1bf77b0be23 (git) Affected: 34a949e7a0869dfa31a40416d2a56973fae1807b , < cd8d8bbd9ced4cc5d06d858f67d4aa87745e8f38 (git) Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < 3c13db3e47e170bab19e574404e7b6be45ea873d (git) Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < 46aeb66e9e54ed0d56c18615e1c3dbd502b327ab (git) Affected: d9ccb18f83ea2bb654289b6ecf014fd267cc988b , < 54e6fe9dd3b0e7c481c2228782c9494d653546da (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) |
guessed | |
| 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) |
guessed |
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.