CVE-2025-68353

Linux Kernel 6.7-6.18.1 - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in vxlan_xmit_one

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one Neither sock4 nor sock6 pointers are guaranteed to be non-NULL in vxlan_xmit_one, e.g. if the iface is brought down. This can lead to the following NULL dereference: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit_one+0xbb3/0x1580 Call Trace: vxlan_xmit+0x429/0x610 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x55/0xa0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x6d0/0x7f0 ip_finish_output2+0x24b/0x590 ip_output+0x63/0x110 Mentioned commits changed the code path in vxlan_xmit_one and as a side effect the sock4/6 pointer validity checks in vxlan(6)_get_route were lost. Fix this by adding back checks. Since both commits being fixed were released in the same version (v6.7) and are strongly related, bundle the fixes in a single commit.

Scores

EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.5%

Details

Status published
Products (7)
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.18.2linux
Linux/Linux < 6.7
Linux/Linux 6.18.2 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19
Linux/Linux 6.7
Linux/Linux 6f19b2c136d98a84d79030b53e23d405edfdc783 - 1f73a56f986005f0bc64ed23873930e2ee4f5911
Linux/Linux 6f19b2c136d98a84d79030b53e23d405edfdc783 - 4ac26aafdc8c7271414e2e7c0b2cb266a26591bc
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026