CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-38678

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel netfilter (nf_tables) subsystem, duplicate devices can be added to a chain/flowtable in the same batch, causing the netdev event path to remove only the first device and leave the duplicate's hook unregistered, triggering a WARNING.

Risk Assessment

Duplicate devices can lead to incorrect network hook registration, potentially causing kernel warnings and instability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that rejects updates with duplicate devices in the same batch, returning EEXIST.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates A chain/flowtable update with duplicated devices in the same batch is possible. Unfortunately, netdev event path only removes the first device that is found, leaving unregistered the hook of the duplicated device. Check if a duplicated device exists in the transaction batch, bail out with EEXIST in such case. WARNING is hit when unregistering the hook: [49042.221275] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 8425 at net/netfilter/core.c:340 nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150 [49042.221375] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 8425 Comm: nft Tainted: G S 6.16.0+ #170 PREEMPT(full) [...] [49042.221382] RIP: 0010:nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150

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