# 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-2025-21920"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:40:54.595Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:09:05.513Z"
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-2025-21920"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21920.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21920"
title: "vlan: enforce underlying device type"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvlan: enforce underlying device type\n\nCurrently, VLAN devices can be created on top of non-ethernet devices.\n\nBesides the fact that it doesn't make much sense, this also causes a\nbug which leaks the address of a kernel function to usermode.\n\nWhen creating a VLAN device, we initialize GARP (garp_init_applicant)\nand MRP (mrp_init_applicant) for the underlying device.\n\nAs part of the initialization process, we add the multicast address of\neach applicant to the underlying device, by calling dev_mc_add.\n\n__dev_mc_add uses dev-\u003eaddr_len to determine the length of the new\nmulticast address.\n\nThis causes an out-of-bounds read if dev-\u003eaddr_len is greater than 6,\nsince the multicast addresses provided by GARP and MRP are only 6\nbytes long.\n\nThis behaviour can be reproduced using the following commands:\n\nip tunnel add gretest mode ip6gre local ::1 remote ::2 dev lo\nip l set up dev gretest\nip link add link gretest name vlantest type vlan id 100\n\nThen, the following command will display the address of garp_pdu_rcv:\n\nip maddr show | grep 01:80:c2:00:00:21\n\nFix the bug by enforcing the type of the underlying device during VLAN\ndevice initialization."
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