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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-38146

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 7/03/2025 5:15:29 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse

The unexpected MPLS packet may not end with the bottom label stack.
When there are many stacks, The label count value has wrapped around.
A dead loop occurs, soft lockup/CPU stuck finally.

stack backtrace:
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in /build/linux-0Pa0xK/linux-5.15.0/net/openvswitch/flow.c:662:26
index -1 is out of range for type '__be32 [3]'
CPU: 34 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/34 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE   5.15.0-121-generic #131-Ubuntu
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge C6420/0JP9TF, BIOS 2.12.2 07/14/2021
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 show_stack+0x52/0x5c
 dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63
 dump_stack+0x10/0x16
 ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36
 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x44/0x49
 key_extract_l3l4+0x82a/0x840 [openvswitch]
 ? kfree_skbmem+0x52/0xa0
 key_extract+0x9c/0x2b0 [openvswitch]
 ovs_flow_key_extract+0x124/0x350 [openvswitch]
 ovs_vport_receive+0x61/0xd0 [openvswitch]
 ? kernel_init_free_pages.part.0+0x4a/0x70
 ? get_page_from_freelist+0x353/0x540
 netdev_port_receive+0xc4/0x180 [openvswitch]
 ? netdev_port_receive+0x180/0x180 [openvswitch]
 netdev_frame_hook+0x1f/0x40 [openvswitch]
 __netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0x23a/0xf00
 __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0xfa/0x240
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x18e/0x2a0
 napi_complete_done+0x7a/0x1c0
 bnxt_poll+0x155/0x1c0 [bnxt_en]
 __napi_poll+0x30/0x180
 net_rx_action+0x126/0x280
 ? bnxt_msix+0x67/0x80 [bnxt_en]
 handle_softirqs+0xda/0x2d0
 irq_exit_rcu+0x96/0xc0
 common_interrupt+0x8e/0xa0
 </IRQ>
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bdc924bfb319fb10d1113cbf091fc26fb7b1f99
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c1906a3d50cb94fd0a10e97a1c0a40c0f033cb7
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9a086eedc1fddae632310386098c12155e3d0a
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69541e58323ec3e3904e1fa87a6213961b1f52f4
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ebcd311b4866ab911d1445ead08690e67f0c488
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad17eb86d042d72a59fd184ad1adf34f5eb36843
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f26fe7c3002516dd3c288f1012786df31f4d89e0