Bug 2383466 (CVE-2025-38432)

Summary: CVE-2025-38432 kernel: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-25 15:02:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming

commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed
the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke
netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming.

udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().