CVE-2025-38588

ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()

While testing prior patch, I was able to trigger

an infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() in the following place:

list_for_each_entry_rcu(sibling, &f6i->fib6_siblings,

fib6_siblings) {

rt6_nh_nlmsg_size(sibling->fib6_nh, &nexthop_len);

}

This is because fib6_del_route() and fib6_add_rt2node()

uses list_del_rcu(), which can confuse rcu readers,

because they might no longer see the head of the list.

Restart the loop if f6i->fib6_nsiblings is zero.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.7th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
    cvelistv5