CVE-2025-21920 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8OSV5.9OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateOct 15
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vlan: enforce underlying device type
Currently, VLAN devices can be created on top of non-ethernet devices.
Besides the fact that it doesn't make much sense, this also causes a
bug which leaks the address of a kernel function to usermode.
When creating a VLAN device, we initialize GARP (garp_init_applicant)
and MRP (mrp_init_applicant) for the underlying device.
As part of the initialization process, we add the multicast ad…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2