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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21891" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:17.267Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:08:31.288Z" 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-2025-21891" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21891.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21891" title: "ipvlan: ensure network headers are in skb linear part" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipvlan: ensure network headers are in skb linear part\n\nsyzbot found that ipvlan_process_v6_outbound() was assuming\nthe IPv6 network header isis present in skb-\u003ehead [1]\n\nAdd the needed pskb_network_may_pull() calls for both\nIPv4 and IPv6 handlers.\n\n[1]\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47\n __ipv6_addr_type+0xa2/0x490 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:47\n ipv6_addr_type include/net/ipv6.h:555 [inline]\n ip6_route_output_flags_noref net/ipv6/route.c:2616 [inline]\n ip6_route_output_flags+0x51/0x720 net/ipv6/route.c:2651\n ip6_route_output include/net/ip6_route.h:93 [inline]\n ipvlan_route_v6_outbound+0x24e/0x520 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:476\n ipvlan_process_v6_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:491 [inline]\n ipvlan_process_outbound drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:541 [inline]\n ipvlan_xmit_mode_l3 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:605 [inline]\n ipvlan_queue_xmit+0xd72/0x1780 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c:671\n ipvlan_start_xmit+0x5b/0x210 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:223\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5150 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5159 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3735 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x247/0xa20 net/core/dev.c:3751\n sch_direct_xmit+0x399/0xd40 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343\n qdisc_restart net/sched/sch_generic.c:408 [inline]\n __qdisc_run+0x14da/0x35d0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:416\n qdisc_run+0x141/0x4d0 include/net/pkt_sched.h:127\n net_tx_action+0x78b/0x940 net/core/dev.c:5484\n handle_softirqs+0x1a0/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:561\n __do_softirq+0x14/0x1a kernel/softirq.c:595\n do_softirq+0x9a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:462\n __local_bh_enable_ip+0x9f/0xb0 kernel/softirq.c:389\n local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]\n rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:919 [inline]\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x2758/0x57d0 net/core/dev.c:4611\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3311 [inline]\n packet_xmit+0x9c/0x6c0 net/packet/af_packet.c:276\n packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3132 [inline]\n packet_sendmsg+0x93e0/0xa7e0 net/packet/af_packet.c:3164\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b8dea8d1612dc7151d2457d7d2e6a69820309bf"},{"version":"2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ec48f812804f370f622e0874e6dd8fcc58241cd"},{"version":"2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5353fd89663c48f56bdff975c562cfe78b1a2e4c"},{"version":"2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e2a4f76a2d8a44816ecd25bcbdb47b786d621974"},{"version":"2ad7bf3638411cb547f2823df08166c13ab04269","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27843ce6ba3d3122b65066550fe33fb8839f8aef"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.6","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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