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CVE-2025-40170

net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps() Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size(). Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(). ip4_dst_hoplimit() can use dst_dev_net_rcu().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 9f22b5f7f1a32f8bbcc82bf34e34ea63523fcd02; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 5d1be493d1110c9e720b4c51a6e587bb2fb4ac12; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before a805729c0091073d8f0415cfa96c7acd1bc17a48; affected 4a6ce2b6f2ecabbddcfe47e7cf61dd0f00b10e36 before 99a2ace61b211b0be861b07fbaa062fca4b58879
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.13; unaffected 0 before 4.13; unaffected 6.6.160 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.64 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.3 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

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