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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38572" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-19T17:02:52.340Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:03:00.703Z" 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-2025-38572" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38572.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38572" title: "ipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment()\n\nsyzbot was able to craft a packet with very long IPv6 extension headers\nleading to an overflow of skb-\u003etransport_header.\n\nThis 16bit field has a limited range.\n\nAdd skb_reset_transport_header_careful() helper and use it\nfrom ipv6_gso_segment()\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5871 Comm: syz-executor211 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-g7abc678e3084 #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025\n RIP: 0010:skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53\n nsh_gso_segment+0x54a/0xe10 net/nsh/nsh.c:110\n skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53\n __skb_gso_segment+0x342/0x510 net/core/gso.c:124\n skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline]\n validate_xmit_skb+0x857/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:3950\n validate_xmit_skb_list+0x84/0x120 net/core/dev.c:4000\n sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x4b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:329\n __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4102 [inline]\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x17b6/0x3a70 net/core/dev.c:4679" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5dc60b2a00ed7629214ac0c48e43f40af2078703"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f638e0b28bde7c3354a0df938ab3a96739455d1"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"09ff062b89d8e48165247d677d1ca23d6d607e9b"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de322cdf600fc9433845a9e944d1ca6b31cfb67e"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef05007b403dcc21e701cb1f30d4572ac0a9da20"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5489e7fc6f8be3062f8cb7e49406de4bfd94db67"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"573b8250fc2554761db3bc2bbdbab23789d52d4e"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee851768e4b8371ce151fd446d24bf3ae2d18789"},{"version":"d1da932ed4ecad2a14cbcc01ed589d617d0f0f09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d45cf1e7d7180256e17c9ce88e32e8061a7887fe"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.8"},{"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":"6.1.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.102","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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