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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2025-40173

net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/ip6_tunnel: Prevent perpetual tunnel growth Similarly to ipv4 tunnel, ipv6 version updates dev->needed_headroom, too. While ipv4 tunnel headroom adjustment growth was limited in commit 5ae1e9922bbd ("net: ip_tunnel: prevent perpetual headroom growth"), ipv6 tunnel yet increases the headroom without any ceiling. Reflect ipv4 tunnel headroom adjustment limit on ipv6 version. Credits to Francesco Ruggeri, who was originally debugging this issue and wrote local Arista-specific patch and a reproducer.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 566f8d5c8a443f2dd69c5460fdec43ed1c870c65affected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 11f6066af3bfb8149aa16c42c0b0c5ea5b199a94affected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 402b6985e872b4cf394bbbf33b503947a326a6cbaffected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 10fe967efe73c610e526ff7460581610633dee9caffected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 48294a67863c9cfa367abb66bbf0ef6548ae124faffected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < eeb4345488672584db4f8c20a1ae13a212ce31c4affected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < b6eb25d870f1a8ae571fd3da2244b71df547824baffected
  • 8eb30be0352d09165e94a41fef1c7b994dca0714 to < 21f4d45eba0b2dcae5dbc9e5e0ad08735c993f16affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.7affected
  • 0 to < 4.7unaffected
  • 5.4.301 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.246 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.196 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.158 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.114 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.55 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.17.5 to ≤ 6.17.*unaffected
  • 6.18 to ≤ *unaffected

References