CVE-2025-40173

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Perpetual Tunnel Growth in IPv6 Tunnel

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth Similarly to ipv4 tunnel, ipv6 version updates dev->needed_headroom, too. While ipv4 tunnel headroom adjustment growth was limited in commit 5ae1e9922bbd ("net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth"), ipv6 tunnel yet increases the headroom without any ceiling. Reflect ipv4 tunnel headroom adjustment limit on ipv6 version. Credits to Francesco Ruggeri, who was originally debugging this issue and wrote local Arista-specific patch and a reproducer.

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%

Details

Status published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel 4.7.0 - 5.4.301linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.196linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.158linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.246linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.5linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.114linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.55linux
Linux/Linux < 4.7
Linux/Linux 4.7
Linux/Linux 5.10.246 - 5.10.*
... and 15 more
Published Nov 12, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026