# CVE-2025-22055: net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow

> An integer overflow in the Linux kernel's GENEVE option parsing allows attackers to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read, potentially leaking memory or causing a crash.

- **Severity:** High 7.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-22055, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22055, GHSA-chm6-426c-783j, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-22055, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22055

## What is CVE-2025-22055?

CVE-2025-22055 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

net: fix geneve_opt length integer overflow

struct geneve_opt uses 5 bit length for each single option, which
means every vary size option should be smaller than 128 bytes.

However, all current related Netlink policies cannot promise this
length condition and the attacker can exploit a exact 128-byte size
option to *fake* a zero length option and confuse the parsing logic,
further achieve heap out-of-bounds read.

One example crash log is like below:

[    3.905425] ==================================================================
[    3.905925] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[    3.906255] Read of size 124 at addr ffff888005f291cc by task poc/177
[    3.906646]
[    3.906775] CPU: 0 PID: 177 Comm: poc-oob-read Not tainted 6.1.132 #1
[    3.907131] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[    3.907784] Call Trace:
[    3.907925]  <TASK>
[    3.908048]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c
[    3.908258]  print_report+0x184/0x4be
[    3.909151]  kasan_report+0xc5/0x100
[    3.909539]  kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0
[    3.909794]  memcpy+0x1f/0x60
[    3.909968]  nla_put+0xa9/0xe0
[    3.910147]  tunnel_key_dump+0x945/0xba0
[    3.911536]  tcf_action_dump_1+0x1c1/0x340
[    3.912436]  tcf_action_dump+0x101/0x180
[    3.912689]  tcf_exts_dump+0x164/0x1e0
[    3.912905]  fw_dump+0x18b/0x2d0
[    3.913483]  tcf_fill_node+0x2ee/0x460
[    3.914778]  tfilter_notify+0xf4/0x180
[    3.915208]  tc_new_tfilter+0xd51/0x10d0
[    3.918615]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x4a2/0x560
[    3.919118]  netlink_rcv_skb+0xcd/0x200
[    3.919787]  netlink_unicast+0x395/0x530
[    3.921032]  netlink_sendmsg+0x3d0/0x6d0
[    3.921987]  __sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xa0
[    3.922220]  __sys_sendto+0x1b7/0x240
[    3.922682]  __x64_sys_sendto+0x72/0x90
[    3.922906]  do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x90
[    3.923814]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
[    3.924122] RIP: 0033:0x7e83eab84407
[    3.924331] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 faf
[    3.925330] RSP: 002b:00007ffff505e370 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
[    3.925752] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007e83eaafa740 RCX: 00007e83eab84407
[    3.926173] RDX: 00000000000001a8 RSI: 00007ffff505e3c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
[    3.926587] RBP: 00007ffff505f460 R08: 00007e83eace1000 R09: 000000000000000c
[    3.926977] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffff505f3c0
[    3.927367] R13: 00007ffff505f5c8 R14: 00007e83ead1b000 R15: 00005d4fbbe6dcb8

Fix these issues by enforing correct length condition in related
policies.

Weakness: CWE-190 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22055?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22055?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-22055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

- [CVE-2026-53266](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53266/): Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22055 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22055 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22055/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22055/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22055
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22055
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22055

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