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CVE-2025-40236

virtio-net: zero unused hash fields PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: zero unused hash fields When GSO tunnel is negotiated virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() tries to initialize the tunnel metadata but forget to zero unused rxhash fields. This may leak information to another side. Fixing this by zeroing the unused hash fields.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected a2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420 before b625d231c66a6041e98817ffc944bf6e4c45b2e3; affected a2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420 before b2284768c6b32aa224ca7d0ef0741beb434f03aa
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.17; unaffected 0 before 6.17; unaffected 6.17.6 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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