CVE-2025-38162

CVE-2025-38162

High · published July 3, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation

When calculating the lookup table size, ensure the following

multiplication does not overflow:

- desc->field_len[] maximum value is U8_MAX multiplied by

NFT_PIPAPO_GROUPS_PER_BYTE(f) that can be 2, worst case.

- NFT_PIPAPO_BUCKETS(f->bb) is 2^8, worst case.

- sizeof(unsigned long), from sizeof(*f->lt), lt in

struct nft_pipapo_field.

Then, use check_mul_overflow() to multiply by bucket size and then use

check_add_overflow() to the alignment for avx2 (if needed). Finally, add

lt_size_check_overflow() helper and use it to consolidate this.

While at it, replace leftover allocation using the GFP_KERNEL to

GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for consistency, in pipapo_resize().

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Published
2025-07-03T13:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.6, < 6.12.346.12.34
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.36.15.3
References (9)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:36Z
    netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation
    cvelistv5