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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 22, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 12, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: Fix NPD when refreshing an FDB entry with a nexthop object

VXLAN FDB entries can point to either a remote destination or an FDB
nexthop group. The latter is usually used in EVPN deployments where
learning is disabled.

However, when learning is enabled, an incoming packet might try to
refresh an FDB entry that points to an FDB nexthop group and therefore
does not have a remote. Such packets should be dropped, but they are
only dropped after dereferencing the non-existent remote, resulting in a
NPD [1] which can be reproduced using [2].

Fix by dropping such packets earlier. Remove the misleading comment from
first_remote_rcu().

[1]
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[...]
CPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 361 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-virtme-g9f6b606b6b37 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-4.fc41 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:vxlan_snoop+0x98/0x1e0
[...]
Call Trace:

vxlan_encap_bypass+0x209/0x240
encap_bypass_if_local+0xb1/0x100
vxlan_xmit_one+0x1375/0x17e0
vxlan_xmit+0x6b4/0x15f0
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x5d/0x1c0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x246/0xfd0
packet_sendmsg+0x113a/0x1850
__sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x70
__sys_sendto+0x126/0x180
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

[2]
#!/bin/bash

ip address add 192.0.2.1/32 dev lo
ip address add 192.0.2.2/32 dev lo

ip nexthop add id 1 via 192.0.2.3 fdb
ip nexthop add id 10 group 1 fdb

ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 local 192.0.2.1 dstport 12345 localbypass
ip link add name vx1 up type vxlan id 10020 local 192.0.2.2 dstport 54321 learning

bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 192.0.2.2 port 54321 vni 10020
bridge fdb add 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee dev vx1 self static nhid 10

mausezahn vx0 -a 00:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 1 -q

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 19, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 22, 2025
Last updated Dec 12, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(6th percentile)

Weaknesses

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2025-39851

GHSA ID

GHSA-mhrj-pfxm-4x9v

Source code

No known source code

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