# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38037"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:33:23.551Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:20:04.072Z"
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-2025-38037"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38037.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38037"
title: "vxlan: Annotate FDB data races"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: Annotate FDB data races\n\nThe 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be\naccessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as\n[1]. Can be reproduced using [2].\n\nSuppress these reports by annotating these accesses using\nREAD_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().\n\n[1]\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit\n\nwrite to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0:\n vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650\n packet_xmit+0x100/0x150\n packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0\n __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90\n x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00\n do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nread to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2:\n vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650\n packet_xmit+0x100/0x150\n packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0\n __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90\n x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00\n do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nvalue changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -\u003e 0x00000000fffbac6f\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014\n\n[2]\n #!/bin/bash\n\n set +H\n echo whitelist \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan\n echo !vxlan_xmit \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan\n\n ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1\n bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1\n taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &\n taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"02a33b1035a307453a1da6ce0a1bf3676be287d7"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87d076987a9ba106c83412fcd113656f71af05a1"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e033da39fc6abbddab6c29624acef80757f273fa"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"784b78295a3a58bf052339dd669e6e03710220d3"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13cba3f837903f7184d6e9b6137d5165ffe82a8f"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6644aeb8ddf196dec5f8e782293c36f065df4d7"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4eceb7eae6ea7c950384c34e6dbbe872c981935f"},{"version":"d342894c5d2f8c7df194c793ec4059656e09ca31","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6205f8215f12a96518ac9469ff76294ae7bd612"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"5.4.294","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.238","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.185","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.31","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.9","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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