Bug 2406196 (CVE-2025-40018) - CVE-2025-40018 kernel: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup
Summary: CVE-2025-40018 kernel: ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-40018
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: 2025-10-24 12:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-28 17:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-24 12:01:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipvs: Defer ip_vs_ftp unregister during netns cleanup

On the netns cleanup path, __ip_vs_ftp_exit() may unregister ip_vs_ftp
before connections with valid cp->app pointers are flushed, leading to a
use-after-free.

Fix this by introducing a global `exiting_module` flag, set to true in
ip_vs_ftp_exit() before unregistering the pernet subsystem. In
__ip_vs_ftp_exit(), skip ip_vs_ftp unregister if called during netns
cleanup (when exiting_module is false) and defer it to
__ip_vs_cleanup_batch(), which unregisters all apps after all connections
are flushed. If called during module exit, unregister ip_vs_ftp
immediately.


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