CVE-2025-40183 — Missing Reference to Active Allocated Resource in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHOSV
OSV5.5OSV3.2
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 87.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 12
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}
Cilium has a BPF egress gateway feature which forces outgoing K8s Pod
traffic to pass through dedicated egress gateways which then SNAT the
traffic in order to interact with stable IPs outside the cluster.
The traffic is directed to the gateway via vxlan tunnel in collect md
mode. A recent BPF change utilized the bpf_redirect_neigh() helper to
forward packets after the ar…
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb4ab31414970a7a03a5d55d75083f2c101a30592 — 3fba965a9aac0fa3cbd8138436a37af9ab466d79+7