# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21867"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T13:38:20.673Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:59.661Z"
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-2025-21867"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21867.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21867"
title: "bpf, test_run: Fix use-after-free issue in eth_skb_pkt_type()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, test_run: Fix use-after-free issue in eth_skb_pkt_type()\n\nKMSAN reported a use-after-free issue in eth_skb_pkt_type()[1]. The\ncause of the issue was that eth_skb_pkt_type() accessed skb's data\nthat didn't contain an Ethernet header. This occurs when\nbpf_prog_test_run_xdp() passes an invalid value as the user_data\nargument to bpf_test_init().\n\nFix this by returning an error when user_data is less than ETH_HLEN in\nbpf_test_init(). Additionally, remove the check for \"if (user_size \u003e\nsize)\" as it is unnecessary.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in eth_skb_pkt_type include/linux/etherdevice.h:627 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: use-after-free in eth_type_trans+0x4ee/0x980 net/ethernet/eth.c:165\n eth_skb_pkt_type include/linux/etherdevice.h:627 [inline]\n eth_type_trans+0x4ee/0x980 net/ethernet/eth.c:165\n __xdp_build_skb_from_frame+0x5a8/0xa50 net/core/xdp.c:635\n xdp_recv_frames net/bpf/test_run.c:272 [inline]\n xdp_test_run_batch net/bpf/test_run.c:361 [inline]\n bpf_test_run_xdp_live+0x2954/0x3330 net/bpf/test_run.c:390\n bpf_prog_test_run_xdp+0x148e/0x1b10 net/bpf/test_run.c:1318\n bpf_prog_test_run+0x5b7/0xa30 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4371\n __sys_bpf+0x6a6/0xe20 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5777\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5866 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5864 [inline]\n __x64_sys_bpf+0xa4/0xf0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5864\n x64_sys_call+0x2ea0/0x3d90 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:322\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xd9/0x1d0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nUninit was created at:\n free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1056 [inline]\n free_unref_page+0x156/0x1320 mm/page_alloc.c:2657\n __free_pages+0xa3/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:4838\n bpf_ringbuf_free kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c:226 [inline]\n ringbuf_map_free+0xff/0x1e0 kernel/bpf/ringbuf.c:235\n bpf_map_free kernel/bpf/syscall.c:838 [inline]\n bpf_map_free_deferred+0x17c/0x310 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:862\n process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]\n process_scheduled_works+0xa2b/0x1b60 kernel/workqueue.c:3310\n worker_thread+0xedf/0x1550 kernel/workqueue.c:3391\n kthread+0x535/0x6b0 kernel/kthread.c:389\n ret_from_fork+0x6e/0x90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244\n\nCPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 17276 Comm: syz.1.16450 Not tainted 6.12.0-05490-g9bb88c659673 #8\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"be3d72a2896cb24090f268dce4aa8a304d40bc23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f615fccfc689cb48977d275ac2e391297b52392b"},{"version":"be3d72a2896cb24090f268dce4aa8a304d40bc23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d56d8a23d95100b65f40438639dd82db2af81c11"},{"version":"be3d72a2896cb24090f268dce4aa8a304d40bc23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"972bafed67ca73ad9a56448384281eb5fd5c0ba3"},{"version":"be3d72a2896cb24090f268dce4aa8a304d40bc23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a9e1284e87d59b1303b69d1808d310821d6e5f7"},{"version":"be3d72a2896cb24090f268dce4aa8a304d40bc23","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b3d638ca897e099fa99bd6d02189d3176f80a47"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.5","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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