CVE-2025-38590

net/mlx5e: Remove skb secpath if xfrm state is not found

published August 19, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net/mlx5e: Remove skb secpath if xfrm state is not found

Hardware returns a unique identifier for a decrypted packet's xfrm

state, this state is looked up in an xarray. However, the state might

have been freed by the time of this lookup.

Currently, if the state is not found, only a counter is incremented.

The secpath (sp) extension on the skb is not removed, resulting in

sp->len becoming 0.

Subsequently, functions like __xfrm_policy_check() attempt to access

fields such as xfrm_input_state(skb)->xso.type (which dereferences

sp->xvec[sp->len - 1]) without first validating sp->len. This leads to

a crash when dereferencing an invalid state pointer.

This patch prevents the crash by explicitly removing the secpath

extension from the skb if the xfrm state is not found after hardware

decryption. This ensures downstream functions do not operate on a

zero-length secpath.

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffff000002c8

#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode

#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

PGD 282e067 P4D 282e067 PUD 0

Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP

CPU: 12 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/12 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7_for_upstream_min_debug_2025_05_27_22_44 #1 NONE

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

RIP: 0010:__xfrm_policy_check+0x61a/0xa30

Code: b6 77 7f 83 e6 02 74 14 4d 8b af d8 00 00 00 41 0f b6 45 05 c1 e0 03 48 98 49 01 c5 41 8b 45 00 83 e8 01 48 98 49 8b 44 c5 10 <0f> b6 80 c8 02 00 00 83 e0 0c 3c 04 0f 84 0c 02 00 00 31 ff 80 fa

RSP: 0018:ffff88885fb04918 EFLAGS: 00010297

RAX: ffffffff00000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000000

RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: 0000000000000000

RBP: ffffffff8311af80 R08: 0000000000000020 R09: 00000000c2eda353

R10: ffff88812be2bbc8 R11: 000000001faab533 R12: ffff88885fb049c8

R13: ffff88812be2bbc8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88811896ae00

FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8888dca82000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

CR2: ffffffff000002c8 CR3: 0000000243050002 CR4: 0000000000372eb0

DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000

DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400

Call Trace:

<IRQ>

? try_to_wake_up+0x108/0x4c0

? udp4_lib_lookup2+0xbe/0x150

? udp_lib_lport_inuse+0x100/0x100

? __udp4_lib_lookup+0x2b0/0x410

__xfrm_policy_check2.constprop.0+0x11e/0x130

udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x1d/0x530

udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x76/0x90

__udp4_lib_rcv+0xa64/0xe90

ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x20/0x130

ip_local_deliver_finish+0x75/0xa0

ip_local_deliver+0xc1/0xd0

? ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x130/0x130

ip_sublist_rcv+0x1f9/0x240

? ip_rcv_finish_core+0x430/0x430

ip_list_rcv+0xfc/0x130

__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x181/0x1e0

netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x200/0x360

? mlx5e_build_rx_skb+0x1bc/0xda0 [mlx5_core]

gro_receive_skb+0xfd/0x210

mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe_mpwrq+0x141/0x280 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_poll_rx_cq+0xcc/0x8e0 [mlx5_core]

? mlx5e_handle_rx_dim+0x91/0xd0 [mlx5_core]

mlx5e_napi_poll+0x114/0xab0 [mlx5_core]

__napi_poll+0x25/0x170

net_rx_action+0x32d/0x3a0

? mlx5_eq_comp_int+0x8d/0x280 [mlx5_core]

? notifier_call_chain+0x33/0xa0

handle_softirqs+0xda/0x250

irq_exit_rcu+0x6d/0xc0

common_interrupt+0x81/0xa0

</IRQ>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00382 · 31.1th percentile
Published
2025-08-19T17:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:03Z
    net/mlx5e: Remove skb secpath if xfrm state is not found
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