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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38162"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:36:03.731Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:09.997Z"
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-2025-38162"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38162.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38162"
title: "netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_set_pipapo: prevent overflow in lookup table allocation\n\nWhen calculating the lookup table size, ensure the following\nmultiplication does not overflow:\n\n- desc-\u003efield_len[] maximum value is U8_MAX multiplied by\n  NFT_PIPAPO_GROUPS_PER_BYTE(f) that can be 2, worst case.\n- NFT_PIPAPO_BUCKETS(f-\u003ebb) is 2^8, worst case.\n- sizeof(unsigned long), from sizeof(*f-\u003elt), lt in\n  struct nft_pipapo_field.\n\nThen, use check_mul_overflow() to multiply by bucket size and then use\ncheck_add_overflow() to the alignment for avx2 (if needed). Finally, add\nlt_size_check_overflow() helper and use it to consolidate this.\n\nWhile at it, replace leftover allocation using the GFP_KERNEL to\nGFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for consistency, in pipapo_resize()."
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