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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39850"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-19T15:26:22.803Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:37:27.412Z"
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-2025-39850"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39850.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39850"
title: "vxlan: Fix NPD in {arp,neigh}_reduce() when using nexthop objects"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: Fix NPD in {arp,neigh}_reduce() when using nexthop objects\n\nWhen the \"proxy\" option is enabled on a VXLAN device, the device will\nsuppress ARP requests and IPv6 Neighbor Solicitation messages if it is\nable to reply on behalf of the remote host. That is, if a matching and\nvalid neighbor entry is configured on the VXLAN device whose MAC address\nis not behind the \"any\" remote (0.0.0.0 / ::).\n\nThe code currently assumes that the FDB entry for the neighbor's MAC\naddress points to a valid remote destination, but this is incorrect if\nthe entry is associated with an FDB nexthop group. This can result in a\nNPD [1][3] which can be reproduced using [2][4].\n\nFix by checking that the remote destination exists before dereferencing\nit.\n\n[1]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[...]\nCPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 365 Comm: arping Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-virtme-g2a89cb21162c #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit+0xb58/0x15f0\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x5d/0x1c0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x246/0xfd0\n packet_sendmsg+0x113a/0x1850\n __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x70\n __sys_sendto+0x126/0x180\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\n[2]\n #!/bin/bash\n\n ip address add 192.0.2.1/32 dev lo\n\n ip nexthop add id 1 via 192.0.2.2 fdb\n ip nexthop add id 10 group 1 fdb\n\n ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 local 192.0.2.1 dstport 4789 proxy\n\n ip neigh add 192.0.2.3 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 nud perm dev vx0\n\n bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static nhid 10\n\n arping -b -c 1 -s 192.0.2.1 -I vx0 192.0.2.3\n\n[3]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n[...]\nCPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 372 Comm: ndisc6 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc2-virtmne-g6ee90cb26014 #3 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1v996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2x014\nRIP: 0010:vxlan_xmit+0x803/0x1600\n[...]\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x5d/0x1c0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x246/0xfd0\n ip6_finish_output2+0x210/0x6c0\n ip6_finish_output+0x1af/0x2b0\n ip6_mr_output+0x92/0x3e0\n ip6_send_skb+0x30/0x90\n rawv6_sendmsg+0xe6e/0x12e0\n __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x70\n __sys_sendto+0x126/0x180\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\nRIP: 0033:0x7f383422ec77\n\n[4]\n #!/bin/bash\n\n ip address add 2001:db8:1::1/128 dev lo\n\n ip nexthop add id 1 via 2001:db8:1::1 fdb\n ip nexthop add id 10 group 1 fdb\n\n ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 local 2001:db8:1::1 dstport 4789 proxy\n\n ip neigh add 2001:db8:1::3 lladdr 00:11:22:33:44:55 nud perm dev vx0\n\n bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static nhid 10\n\n ndisc6 -r 1 -s 2001:db8:1::1 -w 1 2001:db8:1::3 vx0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ba034c41b20dc4f32ece748f1429709ae8ceedc"},{"version":"1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e211e3f4199ac829bd493632efcd131d337cba9d"},{"version":"1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8cfa0f076842f9b3b4eb52ae0e41d16e25cbf8fa"},{"version":"1274e1cc42264d4e629841e4f182795cb0becfd2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f5d2fd1ca04a23c18b1bde9a43ce2fa2ffa1bce"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.46","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.6","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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