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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38465" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-25T15:27:47.510Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:19.018Z" 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-2025-38465" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38465.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38465" title: "netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetlink: Fix wraparounds of sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc.\n\nNetlink has this pattern in some places\n\n if (atomic_read(&sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc) \u003e sk-\u003esk_rcvbuf)\n \tatomic_add(skb-\u003etruesize, &sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc);\n\n, which has the same problem fixed by commit 5a465a0da13e (\"udp:\nFix multiple wraparounds of sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc.\").\n\nFor example, if we set INT_MAX to SO_RCVBUFFORCE, the condition\nis always false as the two operands are of int.\n\nThen, a single socket can eat as many skb as possible until OOM\nhappens, and we can see multiple wraparounds of sk-\u003esk_rmem_alloc.\n\nLet's fix it by using atomic_add_return() and comparing the two\nvariables as unsigned int.\n\nBefore:\n [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink\n Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port\n -1668710080 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/293 *\n\nAfter:\n [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink\n Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port\n 2147483072 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/290 *\n ^\n `--- INT_MAX - 576" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9da025150b7c14a8390fc06aea314c0a4011e82c"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4ceaac5c5ba0b992ee1dc88e2a02421549e5c98"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd69af06101090eaa60b3d216ae715f9c0a58e5b"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"76602d8e13864524382b0687dc32cd8f19164d5a"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"55baecb9eb90238f60a8350660d6762046ebd3bd"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b8e18af7bea92f8b7fb92d40aeae729209db250"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd7ff61bfffd7000143c42bbffb85eeb792466d6"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ae8f160e7eb24240a2a79fc4c815c6a0d4ee16cc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.12"},{"version":"5.4.296","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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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