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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38470" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:32.002Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:16.938Z" 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-2025-38470" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38470.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38470" title: "net: vlan: fix VLAN 0 refcount imbalance of toggling filtering during runtime" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: vlan: fix VLAN 0 refcount imbalance of toggling filtering during runtime\n\nAssuming the \"rx-vlan-filter\" feature is enabled on a net device, the\n8021q module will automatically add or remove VLAN 0 when the net device\nis put administratively up or down, respectively. There are a couple of\nproblems with the above scheme.\n\nThe first problem is a memory leak that can happen if the \"rx-vlan-filter\"\nfeature is disabled while the device is running:\n\n # ip link add bond1 up type bond mode 0\n # ethtool -K bond1 rx-vlan-filter off\n # ip link del dev bond1\n\nWhen the device is put administratively down the \"rx-vlan-filter\"\nfeature is disabled, so the 8021q module will not remove VLAN 0 and the\nmemory will be leaked [1].\n\nAnother problem that can happen is that the kernel can automatically\ndelete VLAN 0 when the device is put administratively down despite not\nadding it when the device was put administratively up since during that\ntime the \"rx-vlan-filter\" feature was disabled. null-ptr-unref or\nbug_on[2] will be triggered by unregister_vlan_dev() for refcount\nimbalance if toggling filtering during runtime:\n\n$ ip link add bond0 type bond mode 0\n$ ip link add link bond0 name vlan0 type vlan id 0 protocol 802.1q\n$ ethtool -K bond0 rx-vlan-filter off\n$ ifconfig bond0 up\n$ ethtool -K bond0 rx-vlan-filter on\n$ ifconfig bond0 down\n$ ip link del vlan0\n\nRoot cause is as below:\nstep1: add vlan0 for real_dev, such as bond, team.\nregister_vlan_dev\n vlan_vid_add(real_dev,htons(ETH_P_8021Q),0) //refcnt=1\nstep2: disable vlan filter feature and enable real_dev\nstep3: change filter from 0 to 1\nvlan_device_event\n vlan_filter_push_vids\n ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid //No refcnt added to real_dev vlan0\nstep4: real_dev down\nvlan_device_event\n vlan_vid_del(dev, htons(ETH_P_8021Q), 0); //refcnt=0\n vlan_info_rcu_free //free vlan0\nstep5: delete vlan0\nunregister_vlan_dev\n BUG_ON(!vlan_info); //vlan_info is null\n\nFix both problems by noting in the VLAN info whether VLAN 0 was\nautomatically added upon NETDEV_UP and based on that decide whether it\nshould be deleted upon NETDEV_DOWN, regardless of the state of the\n\"rx-vlan-filter\" feature.\n\n[1]\nunreferenced object 0xffff8880068e3100 (size 256):\n comm \"ip\", pid 384, jiffies 4296130254\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 20 30 0d 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 . 0.............\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace (crc 81ce31fa):\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2b5/0x340\n vlan_vid_add+0x434/0x940\n vlan_device_event.cold+0x75/0xa8\n notifier_call_chain+0xca/0x150\n __dev_notify_flags+0xe3/0x250\n rtnl_configure_link+0x193/0x260\n rtnl_newlink_create+0x383/0x8e0\n __rtnl_newlink+0x22c/0xa40\n rtnl_newlink+0x627/0xb00\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fb/0xb70\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x11f/0x350\n netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710\n netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20\n __sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180\n\n[2]\nkernel BUG at net/8021q/vlan.c:99!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 382 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3 #61 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),\nBIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:unregister_vlan_dev (net/8021q/vlan.c:99 (discriminator 1))\nRSP: 0018:ffff88810badf310 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810da84000 RCX: ffffffffb47ceb9a\nRDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88810e8b43c8\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: fffffbfff6cefe80\nR10: ffffffffb677f407 R11: ffff88810badf3c0 R12: ffff88810e8b4000\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88810642a5c0 R15: 000000000000017e\nFS: 00007f1ff68c20c0(0000) GS:ffff888163a24000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007f1ff5dad240 CR3: 0000000107e56000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba48d3993af23753e1f1f01c8d592de9c7785f24"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35142b3816832889e50164d993018ea5810955ae"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"047b61a24d7c866c502aeeea482892969a68f216"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d43ef15bf4856c8c4c6c3572922331a5f06deb77"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bb515c41306454937464da055609b5fb0a27821b"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8984bcbd1edf5bee5be06ad771d157333b790c33"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"93715aa2d80e6c5cea1bb486321fc4585076928b"},{"version":"ad1afb00393915a51c21b1ae8704562bf036855f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"579d4f9ca9a9a605184a9b162355f6ba131f678d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.36","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.36"},{"version":"5.4.297","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.147","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","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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