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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-23163" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-01T12:55:47.380Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:14:11.352Z" 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-2025-23163" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-23163.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-23163" title: "net: vlan: don't propagate flags on open" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: vlan: don't propagate flags on open\n\nWith the device instance lock, there is now a possibility of a deadlock:\n\n[ 1.211455] ============================================\n[ 1.211571] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected\n[ 1.211687] 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 Not tainted\n[ 1.211823] --------------------------------------------\n[ 1.211936] ip/184 is trying to acquire lock:\n[ 1.212032] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev-\u003elock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0\n[ 1.212207]\n[ 1.212207] but task is already holding lock:\n[ 1.212332] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev-\u003elock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0\n[ 1.212487]\n[ 1.212487] other info that might help us debug this:\n[ 1.212626] Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n[ 1.212626]\n[ 1.212751] CPU0\n[ 1.212815] ----\n[ 1.212871] lock(&dev-\u003elock);\n[ 1.212944] lock(&dev-\u003elock);\n[ 1.213016]\n[ 1.213016] *** DEADLOCK ***\n[ 1.213016]\n[ 1.213143] May be due to missing lock nesting notation\n[ 1.213143]\n[ 1.213294] 3 locks held by ip/184:\n[ 1.213371] #0: ffffffff838b53e0 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x1b/0xa0\n[ 1.213543] #1: ffffffff84e5fc70 (&net-\u003ertnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_nets_lock+0x37/0xa0\n[ 1.213727] #2: ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev-\u003elock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: dev_open+0x50/0xb0\n[ 1.213895]\n[ 1.213895] stack backtrace:\n[ 1.213991] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5\n[ 1.213993] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\n[ 1.213994] Call Trace:\n[ 1.213995] \u003cTASK\u003e\n[ 1.213996] dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd0\n[ 1.214000] print_deadlock_bug+0x28b/0x2a0\n[ 1.214020] lock_acquire+0xea/0x2a0\n[ 1.214027] __mutex_lock+0xbf/0xd40\n[ 1.214038] dev_set_allmulti+0x4e/0xb0 # real_dev-\u003eflags & IFF_ALLMULTI\n[ 1.214040] vlan_dev_open+0xa5/0x170 # ndo_open on vlandev\n[ 1.214042] __dev_open+0x145/0x270\n[ 1.214046] __dev_change_flags+0xb0/0x1e0\n[ 1.214051] netif_change_flags+0x22/0x60 # IFF_UP vlandev\n[ 1.214053] dev_change_flags+0x61/0xb0 # for each device in group from dev-\u003evlan_info\n[ 1.214055] vlan_device_event+0x766/0x7c0 # on netdevsim0\n[ 1.214058] notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x120\n[ 1.214062] netif_open+0x6d/0x90\n[ 1.214064] dev_open+0x5b/0xb0 # locks netdevsim0\n[ 1.214066] bond_enslave+0x64c/0x1230\n[ 1.214075] do_set_master+0x175/0x1e0 # on netdevsim0\n[ 1.214077] do_setlink+0x516/0x13b0\n[ 1.214094] rtnl_newlink+0xaba/0xb80\n[ 1.214132] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x440/0x490\n[ 1.214144] netlink_rcv_skb+0xeb/0x120\n[ 1.214150] netlink_unicast+0x1f9/0x320\n[ 1.214153] netlink_sendmsg+0x346/0x3f0\n[ 1.214157] __sock_sendmsg+0x86/0xb0\n[ 1.214160] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1c8/0x220\n[ 1.214164] ___sys_sendmsg+0x28f/0x2d0\n[ 1.214179] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0xef/0x140\n[ 1.214184] do_syscall_64+0xec/0x1d0\n[ 1.214190] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n[ 1.214191] RIP: 0033:0x7f2d1b4a7e56\n\nDevice setup:\n\n netdevsim0 (down)\n ^ ^\n bond netdevsim1.100@netdevsim1 allmulticast=on (down)\n\nWhen we enslave the lower device (netdevsim0) which has a vlan, we\npropagate vlan's allmuti/promisc flags during ndo_open. This causes\n(re)locking on of the real_dev.\n\nPropagate allmulti/promisc on flags change, not on the open. There\nis a slight semantics change that vlans that are down now propagate\nthe flags, but this seems unlikely to result in the real issues.\n\nReproducer:\n\n echo 0 1 \u003e /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device\n\n dev_path=$(ls -d /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim0/net/*)\n dev=$(echo $dev_path | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev)\n\n ip link set dev $dev name netdevsim0\n ip link set dev netdevsim0 up\n\n ip link add link netdevsim0 name netdevsim0.100 type vlan id 100\n ip link set dev netdevsim0.100 allm\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a32f1d4f1f4c9d978698f3c718621f6198f2e7ac"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1e3eeb037256a2f1206a8d69810ec47eb152026"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"523fa0979d842443aa14b80002e45b471cbac137"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"53fb25e90c0a503a17c639341ba5e755cb2feb5c"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d537859e56bcc3091805c524484a4c85386b3cc8"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"299d7d27af6b5844cda06a0fdfa635705e1bc50f"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8980018a9806743d9b80837330d46f06ecf78516"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"538b43aa21e3b17c110104efd218b966d2eda5f8"},{"version":"6c78dcbd47a68a7d25d2bee7a6c74b9136cb5fde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27b918007d96402aba10ed52a6af8015230f1793"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.23","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.23"},{"version":"5.4.293","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.88","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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