# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21790"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:28.375Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:24.596Z"
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-2025-21790"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21790.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21790"
title: "vxlan: check vxlan_vnigroup_init() return value"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: check vxlan_vnigroup_init() return value\n\nvxlan_init() must check vxlan_vnigroup_init() success\notherwise a crash happens later, spotted by syzbot.\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000002c: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000160-0x0000000000000167]\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7313 Comm: syz-executor147 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-syzkaller-00276-g69b54314c975 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:vxlan_vnigroup_uninit+0x89/0x500 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:912\nCode: 00 48 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b b0 98 41 00 00 49 8d 86 60 01 00 00 48 89 c2 48 89 44 24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02 00 0f 85 4d 04 00 00 49 8b 86 60 01 00 00 48 ba 00 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000cc1eea8 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8672effb\nRDX: 000000000000002c RSI: ffffffff8672ecb9 RDI: ffff8880461b4f18\nRBP: ffff8880461b4ef4 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000020000\nR13: ffff8880461b0d80 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000\nFS:  00007fecfa95d6c0(0000) GS:ffff88806a600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007fecfa95cfb8 CR3: 000000004472c000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  vxlan_uninit+0x1ab/0x200 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:2942\n  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x12d6/0x1f30 net/core/dev.c:11824\n  unregister_netdevice_many net/core/dev.c:11866 [inline]\n  unregister_netdevice_queue+0x307/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:11736\n  register_netdevice+0x1829/0x1eb0 net/core/dev.c:10901\n  __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c6/0xa30 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:3981\n  vxlan_newlink+0xd1/0x130 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:4407\n  rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3795 [inline]\n  __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79aea5e55156c87dc570e43fcd8bba01b9d6ab3f"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a303649b99b64858d62ce7428125d8e71675d2b6"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e860f847787fbbf0d8dacd638c019c7c3d4a9bd3"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3215f5aafc49aaa993991633833854694e73b439"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5805402dcc56241987bca674a1b4da79a249bab7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.129","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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