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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38441" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:20.276Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:59:44.778Z" 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-2025-38441" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38441.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38441" title: "netfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()\n\nsyzbot found a potential access to uninit-value in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()\n\nBlamed commit forgot the Ethernet header.\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27\n nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27\n nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline]\n nf_hook_slow+0xe1/0x3d0 net/netfilter/core.c:623\n nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]\n nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5742 [inline]\n __netif_receive_skb_core+0x4aff/0x70c0 net/core/dev.c:5837\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5975 [inline]\n __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6090\n netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6176 [inline]\n netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x630 net/core/dev.c:6235\n tun_rx_batched+0x1df/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1485\n tun_get_user+0x4ee0/0x6b40 drivers/net/tun.c:1938\n tun_chr_write_iter+0x3e9/0x5c0 drivers/net/tun.c:1984\n new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n vfs_write+0xb4b/0x1580 fs/read_write.c:686\n ksys_write fs/read_write.c:738 [inline]\n __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d06977b9a4109f8738bb276125eb6a0b772bc433","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3aea97d55964e70a1e6426aa4cafdc036e8a2dd"},{"version":"8bf7c76a2a207ca2b4cfda0a279192adf27678d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eed8960b289327235185b7c32649c3470a3e969b"},{"version":"a2471d271042ea18e8a6babc132a8716bb2f08b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fbc49429a23b02595ba82536c5ea425fdabb221"},{"version":"87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef"},{"version":"87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cfbf0665969af2c69d10c377d4c3d306e717efb4"},{"version":"87b3593bed1868b2d9fe096c01bcdf0ea86cbebf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"18cdb3d982da8976b28d57691eb256ec5688fad2"},{"version":"cf366ee3bc1b7d1c76a882640ba3b3f8f1039163","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.157","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.189"},{"version":"6.1.88","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.146"},{"version":"6.6.29","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.99"},{"version":"6.8.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"5.15.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.146","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.99","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.7","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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