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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21926" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:40:57.882Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:05:12.371Z" 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-2025-21926" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21926.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21926" title: "net: gso: fix ownership in __udp_gso_segment" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: gso: fix ownership in __udp_gso_segment\n\nIn __udp_gso_segment the skb destructor is removed before segmenting the\nskb but the socket reference is kept as-is. This is an issue if the\noriginal skb is later orphaned as we can hit the following bug:\n\n kernel BUG at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3312! (skb_orphan)\n RIP: 0010:ip_rcv_core+0x8b2/0xca0\n Call Trace:\n ip_rcv+0xab/0x6e0\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x168/0x1b0\n process_backlog+0x384/0x1100\n __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xa1/0x370\n net_rx_action+0x925/0xe50\n\nThe above can happen following a sequence of events when using\nOpenVSwitch, when an OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE action precedes an\nOVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT action:\n\n1. OVS_ACTION_ATTR_USERSPACE is handled (in do_execute_actions): the skb\n goes through queue_gso_packets and then __udp_gso_segment, where its\n destructor is removed.\n2. The segments' data are copied and sent to userspace.\n3. OVS_ACTION_ATTR_OUTPUT is handled (in do_execute_actions) and the\n same original skb is sent to its path.\n4. If it later hits skb_orphan, we hit the bug.\n\nFix this by also removing the reference to the socket in\n__udp_gso_segment." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f28205ddb76e86cac418332e952241d85fed0dc"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2d1cca955ed34873e524cc2e6e885450d262f05"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"455217ac9db0cf9349b3933664355e907bb1a569"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8db70537878e1bb3fd83e5abcc6feefc0587828"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01a83237644d6822bc7df2c5564fc81b0df84358"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"084819b0d8b1bd433b90142371eb9450d657f8ca"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c32da44cc9298eaa6109e3fc2c2b4e07cc4bf11b"},{"version":"ad405857b174ed31a97982bb129c320d03321cf5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee01b2f2d7d0010787c2343463965bbc283a497f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.18"},{"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"}] ## 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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