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CVE-2025-21922
published 2025-04-01

CVE-2025-21922: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: Fix KMSAN uninit-value warning with bpf Syzbot caught an "KMSAN: uninit-value" warning…

PriorityP422medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.20%
10.1th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp: Fix KMSAN uninit-value warning with bpf Syzbot caught an "KMSAN: uninit-value" warning [1], which is caused by the ppp driver not initializing a 2-byte header when using socket filter. The following code can generate a PPP filter BPF program: ''' struct bpf_program fp; pcap_t *handle; handle = pcap_open_dead(DLT_PPP_PPPD, 65535); pcap_compile(handle, &fp, "ip and outbound", 0, 0); bpf_dump(&fp, 1); ''' Its output is: ''' (000) ldh [2] (001) jeq #0x21 jt 2 jf 5 (002) ldb [0] (003) jeq #0x1 jt 4 jf 5 (004) ret #65535 (005) ret #0 ''' Wen can find similar code at the following link: https://github.com/ppp-project/ppp/blob/master/pppd/options.c#L1680 The maintainer of this code repository is also the original maintainer of the ppp driver. As you can see the BPF program skips 2 bytes of data and then reads the 'Protocol' field to determine if it's an IP packet. Then it read the first byte of the first 2 bytes to determine the direction. The issue is that only the first byte indicating direction is initialized in current ppp driver code while the second byte is not initialized. For normal BPF programs generated by libpcap, uninitialized data won't be used, so it's not a problem. However, for carefully crafted BPF programs, such as those generated by syzkaller [2], which start reading from offset 0, the uninitialized data will be used and caught by KMSAN. [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=853242d9c9917165d791 [2] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=ReproC&x=11994913980000

Affected

30 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.1.133-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.133-1 (bookworm)
debianlinux-6.1< linux 6.1.133-1 (bookworm)linux 6.1.133-1 (bookworm)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < d685096c8129c9a92689975193e268945fd21dbfd685096c8129c9a92689975193e268945fd21dbf
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 2f591cb158807bdcf424f66f1fbfa6e4e50f37572f591cb158807bdcf424f66f1fbfa6e4e50f3757
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 4e2191b0fd0c064d37b0db67396216f2d4787e0f4e2191b0fd0c064d37b0db67396216f2d4787e0f
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 3de809a768464528762757e433cd50de35bcb3c13de809a768464528762757e433cd50de35bcb3c1
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 1eacd47636a9de5bee25d9d5962dc538a82d9f0b1eacd47636a9de5bee25d9d5962dc538a82d9f0b
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 8aa8a40c766b3945b40565a70349d5581458ff638aa8a40c766b3945b40565a70349d5581458ff63
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < c036f5f2680cbdabdbbace86baee3c83721634d6c036f5f2680cbdabdbbace86baee3c83721634d6
linuxlinux>= 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 < 4c2d14c40a68678d885eab4008a0129646805bae4c2d14c40a68678d885eab4008a0129646805bae
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.10.237-15.10.237-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.1.133-16.1.133-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.19-16.12.19-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.19-16.12.19-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.4.0-216.2365.4.0-216.236
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 5.15.0-140.1505.15.0-140.150
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-84.846.8.0-84.84
linuxlinux_kernel>= 2.6.12 < 5.4.2915.4.291
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.11 < 5.15.1795.15.179
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.16 < 6.1.1316.1.131
linuxlinux_kernel>= 5.5 < 5.10.2355.10.235
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.13 < 6.13.76.13.7
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.2 < 6.6.836.6.83

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv8.8HIGH
vendor_ubuntu8.8HIGH
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_msrc5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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