Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 19, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
CVE-2025-38588
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
While testing prior patch, I was able to trigger an infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size() in the following place:
list_for_each_entry_rcu(sibling, &f6i->fib6_siblings, fib6_siblings) { rt6_nh_nlmsg_size(sibling->fib6_nh, &nexthop_len); }
This is because fib6_del_route() and fib6_add_rt2node() uses list_del_rcu(), which can confuse rcu readers, because they might no longer see the head of the list.
Restart the loop if f6i->fib6_nsiblings is zero.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c13db3e47e170bab19e574404e7b6be45ea873dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/46aeb66e9e54ed0d56c18615e1c3dbd502b327abmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/54e6fe9dd3b0e7c481c2228782c9494d653546damitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d345136c9b875f065d226908a29c25cdf9343f8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8d8bbd9ced4cc5d06d858f67d4aa87745e8f38mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b7932af47f92432be8303d2439d1bf77b0be23mitre
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