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CVE-2025-68353
published 2025-12-24

CVE-2025-68353: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one Neither sock4 nor sock6 pointers are…

PriorityP420medium6.4
EPSS
0.16%
5.9th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: vxlan: prevent NULL deref in vxlan_xmit_one Neither sock4 nor sock6 pointers are guaranteed to be non-NULL in vxlan_xmit_one, e.g. if the iface is brought down. This can lead to the following NULL dereference: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit_one+0xbb3/0x1580 Call Trace: vxlan_xmit+0x429/0x610 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x55/0xa0 __dev_queue_xmit+0x6d0/0x7f0 ip_finish_output2+0x24b/0x590 ip_output+0x63/0x110 Mentioned commits changed the code path in vxlan_xmit_one and as a side effect the sock4/6 pointer validity checks in vxlan(6)_get_route were lost. Fix this by adding back checks. Since both commits being fixed were released in the same version (v6.7) and are strongly related, bundle the fixes in a single commit.

Affected

18 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.18.3-1 (forky)linux 6.18.3-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 6f19b2c136d98a84d79030b53e23d405edfdc783 < 4ac26aafdc8c7271414e2e7c0b2cb266a26591bc4ac26aafdc8c7271414e2e7c0b2cb266a26591bc
linuxlinux>= 6f19b2c136d98a84d79030b53e23d405edfdc783 < 1f73a56f986005f0bc64ed23873930e2ee4f59111f73a56f986005f0bc64ed23873930e2ee4f5911
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.18.3-16.18.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.7.0 < 6.18.26.18.2
ubuntulinux-aws
ubuntulinux-aws-6.17
ubuntulinux-azure
ubuntulinux-azure-6.17
ubuntulinux-gcp
ubuntulinux-gcp-6.17
ubuntulinux-hwe-6.17
ubuntulinux-oem-6.17
ubuntulinux-oracle
ubuntulinux-oracle-6.17
ubuntulinux-raspi
ubuntulinux-realtime-6.17

CVSS provenance

vendor_ubuntu6.4MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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