{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21790 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21790 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21790 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21790 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21790/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21790/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21790","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21790/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21790","record":{"aliases":["AZL-57962","BELL-CVE-2025-21790","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21790","GHSA-hjrf-48vm-fq22","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-21790","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21790"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A missing return value check in the Linux kernel VXLAN driver causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: check vxlan_vnigroup_init() return value\n\nvxlan_init() must check vxlan_vnigroup_init() success\notherwise a crash happens later, spotted by syzbot.\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000002c: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000160-0x0000000000000167]\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7313 Comm: syz-executor147 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-syzkaller-00276-g69b54314c975 #0\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:vxlan_vnigroup_uninit+0x89/0x500 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_vnifilter.c:912\nCode: 00 48 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b b0 98 41 00 00 49 8d 86 60 01 00 00 48 89 c2 48 89 44 24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02 00 0f 85 4d 04 00 00 49 8b 86 60 01 00 00 48 ba 00 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000cc1eea8 EFLAGS: 00010202\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8672effb\nRDX: 000000000000002c RSI: ffffffff8672ecb9 RDI: ffff8880461b4f18\nRBP: ffff8880461b4ef4 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000020000\nR13: ffff8880461b0d80 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: dffffc0000000000\nFS:  00007fecfa95d6c0(0000) GS:ffff88806a600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00007fecfa95cfb8 CR3: 000000004472c000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  vxlan_uninit+0x1ab/0x200 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:2942\n  unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x12d6/0x1f30 net/core/dev.c:11824\n  unregister_netdevice_many net/core/dev.c:11866 [inline]\n  unregister_netdevice_queue+0x307/0x3f0 net/core/dev.c:11736\n  register_netdevice+0x1829/0x1eb0 net/core/dev.c:10901\n  __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c6/0xa30 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:3981\n  vxlan_newlink+0xd1/0x130 drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:4407\n  rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3795 [inline]\n  __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3906 [inline]","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"vxlan: check vxlan_vnigroup_init() return value","id":"CVE-2025-21790","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"vrf: use RCU protection in l3mdev_l3_out()","id":"CVE-2025-21791"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"LoongArch: csum: Fix OoB access in IP checksum code for negative lengths","id":"CVE-2025-21789"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-02-27","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing return value check in the Linux kernel VXLAN driver causes a null pointer dereference, leading to a system crash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21790/"}