# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38678"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-03T13:01:15.799Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:27.949Z"
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-2025-38678"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38678.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38678"
title: "netfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: reject duplicate device on updates\n\nA chain/flowtable update with duplicated devices in the same batch is\npossible. Unfortunately, netdev event path only removes the first\ndevice that is found, leaving unregistered the hook of the duplicated\ndevice.\n\nCheck if a duplicated device exists in the transaction batch, bail out\nwith EEXIST in such case.\n\nWARNING is hit when unregistering the hook:\n\n [49042.221275] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 8425 at net/netfilter/core.c:340 nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150\n [49042.221375] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 8425 Comm: nft Tainted: G S                  6.16.0+ #170 PREEMPT(full)\n [...]\n [49042.221382] RIP: 0010:nf_hook_entry_head+0xaa/0x150"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0521e694d5b80899fba8695881a6349f9bc538cb"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4681960bc0f4f8bcc782cbf2fd205f48ad314dfd"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4ce2a0c3b8497a66cfc25fc7ca3d087258a785d2"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f358a66a04513311668ea4b40f5064e253d8386"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf23d531a9d496863aa4c5a0e2f71f0a23f3df3c"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7615bde541f16517d6790412da6ec46fa8a4c1f"},{"version":"78d9f48f7f44431a25da2b46b3a8812f6ff2b981","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf5fb87fcdaaaafec55dcc0dc5a9e15ead343973"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.247","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.197","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.159","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.117","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.2","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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