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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38192" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-04T13:37:16.642Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:10.856Z" 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-2025-38192" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38192.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38192" title: "net: clear the dst when changing skb protocol" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: clear the dst when changing skb protocol\n\nA not-so-careful NAT46 BPF program can crash the kernel\nif it indiscriminately flips ingress packets from v4 to v6:\n\n BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n ip6_rcv_core (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:190:20)\n ipv6_rcv (net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:306:8)\n process_backlog (net/core/dev.c:6186:4)\n napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6906:9)\n net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7028:13)\n do_softirq (kernel/softirq.c:462:3)\n netif_rx (net/core/dev.c:5326:3)\n dev_loopback_xmit (net/core/dev.c:4015:2)\n ip_mc_finish_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:363:8)\n NF_HOOK (./include/linux/netfilter.h:314:9)\n ip_mc_output (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:400:5)\n dst_output (./include/net/dst.h:459:9)\n ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:130:9)\n ip_send_skb (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1496:8)\n udp_send_skb (net/ipv4/udp.c:1040:8)\n udp_sendmsg (net/ipv4/udp.c:1328:10)\n\nThe output interface has a 4-\u003e6 program attached at ingress.\nWe try to loop the multicast skb back to the sending socket.\nIngress BPF runs as part of netif_rx(), pushes a valid v6 hdr\nand changes skb-\u003eprotocol to v6. We enter ip6_rcv_core which\ntries to use skb_dst(). But the dst is still an IPv4 one left\nafter IPv4 mcast output.\n\nClear the dst in all BPF helpers which change the protocol.\nTry to preserve metadata dsts, those may carry non-routing\nmetadata." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a046f183d21ab5ace5a96ece4cf9873a42f003a7"},{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98b1d8dc9a3170b2614f1e8c93854e75cdd83980"},{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bfa4d86e130a09f67607482e988313430e38f6c4"},{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2a3ad42a57b43145839f2f233fb562247658a6d9"},{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e9994e7b9f7bbb882d13c8191731649249150d21"},{"version":"6578171a7ff0c31dc73258f93da7407510abf085","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba9db6f907ac02215e30128770f85fbd7db2fcf9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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