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CVE-2025-40158

ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU in ip6_output() Use RCU in ip6_output() in order to use dst_dev_rcu() to prevent possible UAF. We can remove rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from ip6_finish_output2().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 423895685f367b5a0a956bd14b02df0192bded4c; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 92803b826e40e49a5e8a6e208f4b4574e9d19426; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 0393f85c3241c19ba8550f04a812e7d19f6b3082; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 11709573cc4e48dc34c80fc7ab9ce5b159e29695
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.13; unaffected 0 before 4.13; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.113 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.3 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

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