CVE-2025-22056 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV5.5OSV4.4
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 16
Latest updateJan 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nft_tunnel: fix geneve_opt type confusion addition
When handling multiple NFTA_TUNNEL_KEY_OPTS_GENEVE attributes, the
parsing logic should place every geneve_opt structure one by one
compactly. Hence, when deciding the next geneve_opt position, the
pointer addition should be in units of char *.
However, the current implementation erroneously does type conversion
before the addition, which will lead to heap out-of-b…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages9 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux925d844696d9287f841d6b3e0ed62a35fb175970 — 31d49eb436f2da61280508d7adf8c9b473b967aa+8