CVE-2025-38053: vulnerability in Linux
idpf: fix null-ptr-deref in idpf_features_check
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 92% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
idpf: fix null-ptr-deref in idpf_features_check
idpf_features_check is used to validate the TX packet. skb header
length is compared with the hardware supported value received from
the device control plane. The value is stored in the adapter structure
and to access it, vport pointer is used. During reset all the vports
are released and the vport pointer that the netdev private structure
points to is NULL.
To avoid null-ptr-deref, store the max header length value in netdev
private structure. This also helps to cache the value and avoid
accessing adapter pointer in hot path.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000068
...
RIP: 0010:idpf_features_check+0x6d/0xe0 [idpf]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x23/0x70
? page_fault_oops+0x154/0x520
? exc_page_fault+0x76/0x190
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
? idpf_features_check+0x6d/0xe0 [idpf]
netif_skb_features+0x88/0x310
validate_xmit_skb+0x2a/0x2b0
validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4c/0x70
sch_direct_xmit+0x19d/0x3a0
__dev_queue_xmit+0xb74/0xe70
...
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