CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-37820

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.34%

27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the xen-netfront driver in the Linux kernel, a missing NULL check on xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() can lead to NULL pointer dereference and memory leak.

Risk Assessment

An attacker in a Xen environment can cause guest system crashes or memory leaks by sending XDP packets.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version that checks for NULL and releases the page on XDP redirect failure.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

See all
Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-netfront: handle NULL returned by xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() The function xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() may return NULL if it fails to correctly convert the XDP buffer into an XDP frame due to memory constraints, internal errors, or invalid data. Failing to check for NULL may lead to a NULL pointer dereference if the result is used later in processing, potentially causing crashes, data corruption, or undefined behavior. On XDP redirect failure, the associated page must be released explicitly if it was previously retained via get_page(). Failing to do so may result in a memory leak, as the pages reference count is not decremented.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS