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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21868" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T13:38:21.586Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:55:00.388Z" 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-2025-21868" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21868.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21868" title: "net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values\n\nSabrina reported the following splat:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48\n RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e\n RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6\n RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c\n R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168\n R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270\n xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0\n xfrm_init+0x38/0x50\n ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350\n ip_init+0xf/0x20\n inet_init+0x406/0x590\n do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0\n do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280\n kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490\n kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0\n ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n irq event stamp: 584330\n hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [\u003cffffffff8168bf87\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0\n hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [\u003cffffffff8168bf6c\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0\n softirqs last enabled at (583242): [\u003cffffffff833ee96d\u003e] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470\n softirqs last disabled at (583754): [\u003cffffffff8317c8cd\u003e] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0\n\non kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)\nis smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.\n\nSuch built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache\nso that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering\nthe splat.\n\nNote that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned\nrevert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP\nand GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb()\nto select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed8a77fee4618facd2a539cad7b7366697b5a575"},{"version":"3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed0ca7d2127c63991cfaf1932b827e3f4f8ee480"},{"version":"3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"648e440c98e260dec835e48a5d7a9993477b1f9d"},{"version":"3948b05950fdd64002a5f182c65ba5cf2d53cf71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.117","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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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