CVE-2025-21787

team: better TEAM_OPTION_TYPE_STRING validation

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

team: better TEAM_OPTION_TYPE_STRING validation

syzbot reported following splat [1]

Make sure user-provided data contains one nul byte.

[1] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:633 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in string+0x3ec/0x5f0 lib/vsprintf.c:714 string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:633 [inline] string+0x3ec/0x5f0 lib/vsprintf.c:714 vsnprintf+0xa5d/0x1960 lib/vsprintf.c:2843 __request_module+0x252/0x9f0 kernel/module/kmod.c:149 team_mode_get drivers/net/team/team_core.c:480 [inline] team_change_mode drivers/net/team/team_core.c:607 [inline] team_mode_option_set+0x437/0x970 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1401 team_option_set drivers/net/team/team_core.c:375 [inline] team_nl_options_set_doit+0x1339/0x1f90 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2662 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115 [inline] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline] genl_rcv_msg+0x1214/0x12c0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210 netlink_rcv_skb+0x375/0x650 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2543 genl_rcv+0x40/0x60 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline] netlink_unicast+0xf52/0x1260 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348 netlink_sendmsg+0x10da/0x11e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1892 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline] __sock_sendmsg+0x30f/0x380 net/socket.c:733 ____sys_sendmsg+0x877/0xb60 net/socket.c:2573 ___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2627 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2659 [inline] __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2664 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2662 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x212/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2662 x64_sys_call+0x2ed6/0x3c30 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:47 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x1e0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 7c30483d0f6bdb2230e10e3e4be5167927eac7a0Affected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 7f5af50f3aa0af8cbef9fb76fffeed69e8143f59Affected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before f443687ad20c70320d1248f35f57bf46cac8df0aAffected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 4512482e4805dd30bc77dec511f2a2edba5cb868Affected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before d071a91fa614ecdf760c29f61f6a7bfb7df796d6Affected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 4236bf4716589558cc0f3c3612642b2c2141b04eAffected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 8401cade1918281177974b32c925afdce750d292Affected
  • 3d249d4ca7d0ed6629a135ea1ea21c72286c0d80 to before 5bef3ac184b5626ea62385d6b82a1992b89d7940Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.3Affected
  • before 3.3Not affected
  • 5.4.291 through 5.4.*Not affected
  • 5.10.235 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.179 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.129 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.79 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.16 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.4 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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