Bug 2389453 (CVE-2025-38587) - CVE-2025-38587 kernel: ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
Summary: CVE-2025-38587 kernel: ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38587
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-08-19 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-19 20:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:01:23 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()

fib6_info_uses_dev() seems to rely on RCU without an explicit
protection.

Like the prior fix in rt6_nlmsg_size(),
we need to make sure fib6_del_route() or fib6_add_rt2node()
have not removed the anchor from the list, or we risk an infinite loop.


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