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FKIE_CVE-2025-21680

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-31 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:44

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries Passing a sufficient amount of imix entries leads to invalid access to the pkt_dev->imix_entries array because of the incorrect boundary check. UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/core/pktgen.c:874:24 index 20 is out of range for type 'imix_pkt [20]' CPU: 2 PID: 1210 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1 #121 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl lib/dump_stack.c:117 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds lib/ubsan.c:429 get_imix_entries net/core/pktgen.c:874 pktgen_if_write net/core/pktgen.c:1063 pde_write fs/proc/inode.c:334 proc_reg_write fs/proc/inode.c:346 vfs_write fs/read_write.c:593 ksys_write fs/read_write.c:644 do_syscall_64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130 Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [ fp: allow to fill the array completely; minor changelog cleanup ]

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9b65c672ca9dc4ba52ca2fd54329db9580ce29	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3450092cc2d1c311c5ea92a2486daa2a33520ea5	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76201b5979768500bca362871db66d77cb4c225e	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cde21f52042aa2e29a654458166b873d2ae66b3	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d24a7074dcd0c7e76b7e7e4efbbe7418d62486	Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13

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CVE-2025-21680 (GCVE-0-2025-21680)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-31 11:25 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:53

Title

pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:51 UTC

CWE

CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3450092cc2d1c311c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d24a7074dcd0c7e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cde21f52042aa2e2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9b65c672ca9dc4b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76201b5979768500b…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f , < 3450092cc2d1c311c5ea92a2486daa2a33520ea5 (git) Affected: 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f , < e5d24a7074dcd0c7e76b7e7e4efbbe7418d62486 (git) Affected: 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f , < 7cde21f52042aa2e29a654458166b873d2ae66b3 (git) Affected: 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f , < 1a9b65c672ca9dc4ba52ca2fd54329db9580ce29 (git) Affected: 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f , < 76201b5979768500bca362871db66d77cb4c225e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.15 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.177 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.127 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.74 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.11 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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