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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21680

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 1/31/2025 7:15:29 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries

Passing a sufficient amount of imix entries leads to invalid access to the
pkt_dev->imix_entries array because of the incorrect boundary check.

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/core/pktgen.c:874:24
index 20 is out of range for type 'imix_pkt [20]'
CPU: 2 PID: 1210 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1 #121
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl lib/dump_stack.c:117
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds lib/ubsan.c:429
get_imix_entries net/core/pktgen.c:874
pktgen_if_write net/core/pktgen.c:1063
pde_write fs/proc/inode.c:334
proc_reg_write fs/proc/inode.c:346
vfs_write fs/read_write.c:593
ksys_write fs/read_write.c:644
do_syscall_64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

[ fp: allow to fill the array completely; minor changelog cleanup ]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a9b65c672ca9dc4ba52ca2fd54329db9580ce29
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3450092cc2d1c311c5ea92a2486daa2a33520ea5
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76201b5979768500bca362871db66d77cb4c225e
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cde21f52042aa2e29a654458166b873d2ae66b3
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d24a7074dcd0c7e76b7e7e4efbbe7418d62486