CVE-2025-38441netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 91% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() syzbot found a potential access to uninit-value in nf_flow_pppoe_proto() Blamed commit forgot the Ethernet header. BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27 nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline] nf_hook_slow+0xe1/0x3d0 net/netfilter/core.c:623 nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline] nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5742 [inline] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x4aff/0x70c0 net/core/dev.c:5837 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5975 [inline] __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6090 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6176 [inline] netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x630 net/core/dev.c:6235 tun_rx_batched+0x1df/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1485 tun_get_user+0x4ee0/0x6b40 drivers/net/tun.c:1938 tun_chr_write_iter+0x3e9/0x5c0 drivers/net/tun.c:1984 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0xb4b/0x1580 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write fs/read_write.c:738 [inline] __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 91% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected d06977b9a4109f8738bb276125eb6a0b772bc433 – < a3aea97d55964e70a1e6426aa4cafdc036e8a2dd
- affected 8bf7c76a2a207ca2b4cfda0a279192adf27678d7 – < eed8960b289327235185b7c32649c3470a3e969b
- affected a2471d271042ea18e8a6babc132a8716bb2f08b9 – < 9fbc49429a23b02595ba82536c5ea425fdabb221
- affected 87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf – < e0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef
- affected 87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf – < cfbf0665969af2c69d10c377d4c3d306e717efb4
- affected 87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf – < 18cdb3d982da8976b28d57691eb256ec5688fad2
- affected cf366ee3bc1b7d1c76a882640ba3b3f8f1039163
- affected 5.15.157 – < 5.15.189
- affected 6.1.88 – < 6.1.146
- affected 6.6.29 – < 6.6.99
- affected 6.8.8 – < 6.9
- affected 6.9
- unaffected < 6.9
- unaffected 5.15.189 – ≤ 5.15.*
- unaffected 6.1.146 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.99 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.39 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.15.7 – ≤ 6.15.*
- unaffected 6.16 – ≤ *
References
References7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3aea97d55964e70a1e6426aa4cafdc036e8a2dd (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eed8960b289327235185b7c32649c3470a3e969b (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fbc49429a23b02595ba82536c5ea425fdabb221 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfbf0665969af2c69d10c377d4c3d306e717efb4 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18cdb3d982da8976b28d57691eb256ec5688fad2 (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-22700 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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