CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-40292

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the virtio-net driver of the Linux kernel, an incorrect length check for received big packets was found. This could lead to a NULL pointer dereference and system crash.

Risk Assessment

A malicious host could send a crafted packet with incorrect length, potentially causing a virtual machine crash (DoS).

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix for CVE-2025-40292.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: fix received length check in big packets Since commit 4959aebba8c0 ("virtio-net: use mtu size as buffer length for big packets"), when guest gso is off, the allocated size for big packets is not MAX_SKB_FRAGS * PAGE_SIZE anymore but depends on negotiated MTU. The number of allocated frags for big packets is stored in vi->big_packets_num_skbfrags. Because the host announced buffer length can be malicious (e.g. the host vhost_net driver's get_rx_bufs is modified to announce incorrect length), we need a check in virtio_net receive path. Currently, the check is not adapted to the new change which can lead to NULL page pointer dereference in the below while loop when receiving length that is larger than the allocated one. This commit fixes the received length check corresponding to the new change.

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