# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37921"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T15:21:50.410Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:03.984Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-37921"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37921.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37921"
title: "vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry\n\nWhen a VNI is deleted from a VXLAN device in 'vnifilter' mode, the FDB\nentry associated with the default remote (assuming one was configured)\nis deleted without holding the hash lock. This is wrong and will result\nin a warning [1] being generated by the lockdep annotation that was\nadded by commit ebe642067455 (\"vxlan: Create wrappers for FDB lookup\").\n\nReproducer:\n\n # ip link add vx0 up type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter local 192.0.2.1\n # bridge vni add vni 10010 remote 198.51.100.1 dev vx0\n # bridge vni del vni 10010 dev vx0\n\nFix by acquiring the hash lock before the deletion and releasing it\nafterwards. Blame the original commit that introduced the issue rather\nthan the one that exposed it.\n\n[1]\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 392 at drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:417 vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0\n[...]\nRIP: 0010:vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __vxlan_fdb_delete+0xbe/0x560\n vxlan_vni_delete_group+0x2ba/0x940\n vxlan_vni_del.isra.0+0x15f/0x580\n vxlan_process_vni_filter+0x38b/0x7b0\n vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x3bb/0x510\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f7/0xb70\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x131/0x360\n netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710\n netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20\n __sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180\n __sys_sendmsg+0x121/0x1b0\n do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2d4a121296aa3940d2df9906f955c2b6b4e38bc3"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3576e9a80b6c4381b01ce0cbaa07f5e92d4492ed"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5cb9e07f84e527974b12e82e2549fa6c0cc6eef0"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"470206205588559e60035fceb5f256640cb45f99"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"087a9eb9e5978e3ba362e1163691e41097e8ca20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.138","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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