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CVE-2025-38432

net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming. udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected f1fce08e63fe1a2a8b8106b93b7244a39830edae before 353016ec159f939a380ff6746476a779367ba9a3; affected f1fce08e63fe1a2a8b8106b93b7244a39830edae before f5990207026987a353d5a95204c4d9cb725637fd
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.15; unaffected 0 before 6.15; unaffected 6.15.5 through 6.15.*; unaffected 6.16 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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