CVE-2025-38588

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Infinite Loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() via fib6_siblings List Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 4.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (25)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel < 6.1.148linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.102linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.42linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 11edcd026012ac18acee0f1514db3ed1b160fc6f
Linux/Linux 34a949e7a0869dfa31a40416d2a56973fae1807b - cd8d8bbd9ced4cc5d06d858f67d4aa87745e8f38
Linux/Linux 52da02521ede55fb86546c3fffd9377b3261b91f - e1b7932af47f92432be8303d2439d1bf77b0be23
Linux/Linux 6.1.128 - 6.1.148
... and 15 more
Published Aug 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026