Bug 2356639 (CVE-2025-21920) - CVE-2025-21920 kernel: vlan: enforce underlying device type
Summary: CVE-2025-21920 kernel: vlan: enforce underlying device type
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21920
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-04-01 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-09 07:19 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:8643 0 None None None 2025-06-09 07:19:49 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:03:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vlan: enforce underlying device type

Currently, VLAN devices can be created on top of non-ethernet devices.

Besides the fact that it doesn't make much sense, this also causes a
bug which leaks the address of a kernel function to usermode.

When creating a VLAN device, we initialize GARP (garp_init_applicant)
and MRP (mrp_init_applicant) for the underlying device.

As part of the initialization process, we add the multicast address of
each applicant to the underlying device, by calling dev_mc_add.

__dev_mc_add uses dev->addr_len to determine the length of the new
multicast address.

This causes an out-of-bounds read if dev->addr_len is greater than 6,
since the multicast addresses provided by GARP and MRP are only 6
bytes long.

This behaviour can be reproduced using the following commands:

ip tunnel add gretest mode ip6gre local ::1 remote ::2 dev lo
ip l set up dev gretest
ip link add link gretest name vlantest type vlan id 100

Then, the following command will display the address of garp_pdu_rcv:

ip maddr show | grep 01:80:c2:00:00:21

Fix the bug by enforcing the type of the underlying device during VLAN
device initialization.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-06-09 07:19:48 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:8643 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8643


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