CVE-2025-21653

CVE Details

Release Date:	2025-01-19
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net_sched: cls_flow: validate TCA_FLOW_RSHIFT attribute syzbot found that TCA_FLOW_RSHIFT attribute was not validated. Right shitfing a 32bit integer is undefined for large shift values. UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in net/sched/cls_flow.c:329:23 shift exponent 9445 is too large for 32-bit type 'u32' (aka 'unsigned int') CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 54 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00180-g4f619d518db9 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120 ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:231 [inline] __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x3c8/0x420 lib/ubsan.c:468 flow_classify+0x24d5/0x25b0 net/sched/cls_flow.c:329 tc_classify include/net/tc_wrapper.h:197 [inline] __tcf_classify net/sched/cls_api.c:1771 [inline] tcf_classify+0x420/0x1160 net/sched/cls_api.c:1867 sfb_classify net/sched/sch_sfb.c:260 [inline] sfb_enqueue+0x3ad/0x18b0 net/sched/sch_sfb.c:318 dev_qdisc_enqueue+0x4b/0x290 net/core/dev.c:3793 __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:3889 [inline] __dev_queue_xmit+0xf0e/0x3f50 net/core/dev.c:4400 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3168 [inline] neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:523 [inline] neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:537 [inline] ip_finish_output2+0xd41/0x1390 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:236 iptunnel_xmit+0x55d/0x9b0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c:82 udp_tunnel_xmit_skb+0x262/0x3b0 net/ipv4/udp_tunnel_core.c:173 geneve_xmit_skb drivers/net/geneve.c:916 [inline] geneve_xmit+0x21dc/0x2d00 drivers/net/geneve.c:1039 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5002 [inline] netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5011 [inline] xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590 [inline] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x27a/0x7d0 net/core/dev.c:3606 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1b73/0x3f50 net/core/dev.c:4434

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	4.7
Vector String:	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Version:	3.1
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	High
Privileges Required:	Low
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	High

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 10 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2025-20480	2025-07-17
Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel-uek)	ELSA-2025-20480	2025-07-17