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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38532"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T11:12:25.161Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:02:42.423Z"
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-2025-38532"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38532.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38532"
title: "net: libwx: properly reset Rx ring descriptor"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: libwx: properly reset Rx ring descriptor\n\nWhen device reset is triggered by feature changes such as toggling Rx\nVLAN offload, wx-\u003edo_reset() is called to reinitialize Rx rings. The\nhardware descriptor ring may retain stale values from previous sessions.\nAnd only set the length to 0 in rx_desc[0] would result in building\nmalformed SKBs. Fix it to ensure a clean slate after device reset.\n\n[  549.186435] [     C16] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[  549.186457] [     C16] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2814!\n[  549.186468] [     C16] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n[  549.186472] [     C16] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #23 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n[  549.186476] [     C16] Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E16/X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI (MS-7E16), BIOS 1.90 12/31/2024\n[  549.186478] [     C16] RIP: 0010:__pskb_pull_tail+0x3ff/0x510\n[  549.186484] [     C16] Code: 06 f0 ff 4f 34 74 7b 4d 8b 8c 24 c8 00 00 00 45 8b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 e9 c8 fd ff ff 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 e9 5e fe ff ff \u003c0f\u003e 0b 31 c0 e9 23 90 5b ff 41 f7 c6 ff 0f 00 00 75 bf 49 8b 06 a8\n[  549.186487] [     C16] RSP: 0018:ffffb391c0640d70 EFLAGS: 00010282\n[  549.186490] [     C16] RAX: 00000000fffffff2 RBX: ffff8fe7e4d40200 RCX: 00000000fffffff2\n[  549.186492] [     C16] RDX: ffff8fe7c3a4bf8e RSI: 0000000000000180 RDI: ffff8fe7c3a4bf40\n[  549.186494] [     C16] RBP: ffffb391c0640da8 R08: ffff8fe7c3a4c0c0 R09: 000000000000000e\n[  549.186496] [     C16] R10: ffffb391c0640d88 R11: 000000000000000e R12: ffff8fe7e4d40200\n[  549.186497] [     C16] R13: 00000000fffffff2 R14: ffff8fe7fa01a000 R15: 00000000fffffff2\n[  549.186499] [     C16] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fef5ae40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n[  549.186502] [     C16] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n[  549.186503] [     C16] CR2: 00007f77d81d6000 CR3: 000000051a032000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0\n[  549.186505] [     C16] PKRU: 55555554\n[  549.186507] [     C16] Call Trace:\n[  549.186510] [     C16]  \u003cIRQ\u003e\n[  549.186513] [     C16]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[  549.186517] [     C16]  __skb_pad+0xc7/0xf0\n[  549.186523] [     C16]  wx_clean_rx_irq+0x355/0x3b0 [libwx]\n[  549.186533] [     C16]  wx_poll+0x92/0x120 [libwx]\n[  549.186540] [     C16]  __napi_poll+0x28/0x190\n[  549.186544] [     C16]  net_rx_action+0x301/0x3f0\n[  549.186548] [     C16]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[  549.186551] [     C16]  ? __raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1e/0x50\n[  549.186554] [     C16]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[  549.186557] [     C16]  ? wake_up_nohz_cpu+0x35/0x160\n[  549.186559] [     C16]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[  549.186563] [     C16]  handle_softirqs+0xf9/0x2c0\n[  549.186568] [     C16]  __irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x130\n[  549.186572] [     C16]  common_interrupt+0xb8/0xd0\n[  549.186576] [     C16]  \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n[  549.186577] [     C16]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  549.186579] [     C16]  asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40\n[  549.186582] [     C16] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xc2/0x420\n[  549.186585] [     C16] Code: 00 00 e8 11 0e 5e ff e8 ac f0 ff ff 49 89 c5 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 ff e8 0d ed 5c ff 45 84 ff 0f 85 40 02 00 00 fb 0f 1f 44 00 00 \u003c45\u003e 85 f6 0f 88 84 01 00 00 49 63 d6 48 8d 04 52 48 8d 04 82 49 8d\n[  549.186587] [     C16] RSP: 0018:ffffb391c0277e78 EFLAGS: 00000246\n[  549.186590] [     C16] RAX: ffff8fef5ae40000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000\n[  549.186591] [     C16] RDX: 0000007fde0faac5 RSI: ffffffff826e53f6 RDI: ffffffff826fa9b3\n[  549.186593] [     C16] RBP: ffff8fe7c3a20800 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000\n[  549.186595] [     C16] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000ffff R12: ffffffff82ed7a40\n[  549.186596] [     C16] R13: 0000007fde0faac5 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000\n[  549.186601] [     C16]  ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xb3/0x420\n[  549.186605] [     C16]  cpuidle_en\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3c47e8ae113a68da47987750d9896e325d0aeedd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d510116c80b37efb100ce8d5ee326214b0157293"},{"version":"3c47e8ae113a68da47987750d9896e325d0aeedd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"10e27b2a6ebeda49e9c2897a699d3ce1ded565ee"},{"version":"3c47e8ae113a68da47987750d9896e325d0aeedd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee527d3fba4dae1d619d2d0438624002c8e99e24"},{"version":"3c47e8ae113a68da47987750d9896e325d0aeedd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d992ed7e1b687ad7df0763d3e015a5358646210b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"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"}]

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