CVE-2025-38037

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Data Race in VXLAN FDB Entry Access

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: Annotate FDB data races The 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be accessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as [1]. Can be reproduced using [2]. Suppress these reports by annotating these accesses using READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE(). [1] BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit write to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0: vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650 packet_xmit+0x100/0x150 packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0 __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90 x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f read to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2: vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650 packet_xmit+0x100/0x150 packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0 __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90 x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f value changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -> 0x00000000fffbac6f Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014 [2] #!/bin/bash set +H echo whitelist > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan echo !vxlan_xmit > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1 bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1 taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q & taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (27)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 3.7.0 - 5.4.294linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.185linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.141linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.238linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.9linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.93linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.31linux
Linux/Linux < 3.7
Linux/Linux 3.7
... and 17 more
Published Jun 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026