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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21925" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:40:57.355Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:05:10.636Z" 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-2025-21925" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21925.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21925" title: "llc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nllc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()\n\nsyzbot is able to crash hosts [1], using llc and devices\nnot supporting IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING.\n\nIn this case, e1000 driver calls eth_skb_pad(), while\nthe skb is shared.\n\nSimply replace skb_get() by skb_clone() in net/llc/llc_s_ac.c\n\nNote that e1000 driver might have an issue with pktgen,\nbecause it does not clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING, this is an\northogonal change.\n\nWe need to audit other skb_get() uses in net/llc.\n\n[1]\n\nkernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178 !\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16371 Comm: syz.2.2764 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00052-gac9c34d1e45a #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:pskb_expand_head+0x6ce/0x1240 net/core/skbuff.c:2178\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __skb_pad+0x18a/0x610 net/core/skbuff.c:2466\n __skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3843 [inline]\n skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3862 [inline]\n eth_skb_pad include/linux/etherdevice.h:656 [inline]\n e1000_xmit_frame+0x2d99/0x5800 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3128\n __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]\n netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]\n xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3806 [inline]\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3822\n sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343\n __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4045 [inline]\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4621\n dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3313 [inline]\n llc_sap_action_send_test_c+0x268/0x320 net/llc/llc_s_ac.c:144\n llc_exec_sap_trans_actions net/llc/llc_sap.c:153 [inline]\n llc_sap_next_state net/llc/llc_sap.c:182 [inline]\n llc_sap_state_process+0x239/0x510 net/llc/llc_sap.c:209\n llc_ui_sendmsg+0xd0d/0x14e0 net/llc/af_llc.c:993\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd1c44327bbbd50fc24f2b38892f5f328b784d0f"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13f3f872627f0f27c31245524fc11367756240ad"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9b6f083db141ece0024be01526aa05aa978811cb"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17f86e25431ebc15aa9245ff156414fdad47822d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"416e8b4c20c6398044e93008deefd563289f477d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f764208dc24ea043c3e20194d32aebf94f8459c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"056e8a46d79e22983bae4267e0d9c52927076f46"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64e6a754d33d31aa844b3ee66fb93ac84ca1565e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.131","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.7","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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