# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21648"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-19T10:18:05.700Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:02:48.320Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21648"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21648.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21648"
title: "netfilter: conntrack: clamp maximum hashtable size to INT_MAX"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: conntrack: clamp maximum hashtable size to INT_MAX\n\nUse INT_MAX as maximum size for the conntrack hashtable. Otherwise, it\nis possible to hit WARN_ON_ONCE in __kvmalloc_node_noprof() when\nresizing hashtable because __GFP_NOWARN is unset. See:\n\n  0708a0afe291 (\"mm: Consider __GFP_NOWARN flag for oversized kvmalloc() calls\")\n\nNote: hashtable resize is only possible from init_netns."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a965f7f0ea3ae61b9165bed619d5d6da02c75f80"},{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1b2353d768f1b80cd7fe045a70adee576b9b338"},{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5552b4fd44be3393b930434a7845d8d95a2a3c33"},{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5807dd1328bbc86e059c5de80d1bbee9d58ca3d"},{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f559357d035877b9d0dcd273e0ff83e18e1d46aa"},{"version":"9cc1c73ad66610bffc80b691136ffc1e9a3b1a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b541ba7d1f5a5b7b3e2e22dc9e40e18a7d6dbc13"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.7"},{"version":"5.10.234","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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