CVE-2025-21680

pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 31, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

pktgen: Avoid out-of-bounds access in get_imix_entries

Passing a sufficient amount of imix entries leads to invalid access to the pkt_dev->imix_entries array because of the incorrect boundary check.

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in net/core/pktgen.c:874:24 index 20 is out of range for type 'imix_pkt [20]' CPU: 2 PID: 1210 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1 #121 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl lib/dump_stack.c:117 __ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds lib/ubsan.c:429 get_imix_entries net/core/pktgen.c:874 pktgen_if_write net/core/pktgen.c:1063 pde_write fs/proc/inode.c:334 proc_reg_write fs/proc/inode.c:346 vfs_write fs/read_write.c:593 ksys_write fs/read_write.c:644 do_syscall_64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

[ fp: allow to fill the array completely; minor changelog cleanup ]

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f to before 3450092cc2d1c311c5ea92a2486daa2a33520ea5Affected
  • 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f to before e5d24a7074dcd0c7e76b7e7e4efbbe7418d62486Affected
  • 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f to before 7cde21f52042aa2e29a654458166b873d2ae66b3Affected
  • 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f to before 1a9b65c672ca9dc4ba52ca2fd54329db9580ce29Affected
  • 52a62f8603f97e720882c8f5aff2767ac6a11d5f to before 76201b5979768500bca362871db66d77cb4c225eAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.15Affected
  • before 5.15Not affected
  • 5.15.177 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.127 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.74 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.11 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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