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High 7.8Published May 20, 2025

CVE-2025-37921vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry When a VNI is deleted from a VXLAN device in 'vnifilter' mode, the FDB entry associated with the default remote (assuming one was configured) is deleted without holding the hash lock. This is wrong and will result in a warning [1] being generated by the lockdep annotation that was added by commit ebe642067455 ("vxlan: Create wrappers for FDB lookup"). Reproducer: # ip link add vx0 up type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter local 192.0.2.1 # bridge vni add vni 10010 remote 198.51.100.1 dev vx0 # bridge vni del vni 10010 dev vx0 Fix by acquiring the hash lock before the deletion and releasing it afterwards. Blame the original commit that introduced the issue rather than the one that exposed it. [1] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 392 at drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:417 vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] RIP: 0010:vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __vxlan_fdb_delete+0xbe/0x560 vxlan_vni_delete_group+0x2ba/0x940 vxlan_vni_del.isra.0+0x15f/0x580 vxlan_process_vni_filter+0x38b/0x7b0 vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x3bb/0x510 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f7/0xb70 netlink_rcv_skb+0x131/0x360 netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710 netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20 __sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180 __sys_sendmsg+0x121/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

CVSS
7.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Oct 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 15, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 before 2d4a121296aa3940d2df9906f955c2b6b4e38bc3; from f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 before 3576e9a80b6c4381b01ce0cbaa07f5e92d4492ed; from f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 before 5cb9e07f84e527974b12e82e2549fa6c0cc6eef0; from f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 before 470206205588559e60035fceb5f256640cb45f99; from f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 before 087a9eb9e5978e3ba362e1163691e41097e8ca20
CNA record
linux linux_kernel
linux:linux_kernel
from 5.18 before 6.1.138; from 6.2 before 6.6.90; from 6.7 before 6.12.28; from 6.13 before 6.14.6; 6.15; 6.15; 6.15; 6.15
NVD
debian debian_linux
debian:debian_linux
11.0
NVD

References

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