# CVE-2025-22075: rtnetlink: Allocate vfinfo size for VF GUIDs when supported

> A missing size allocation for VF GUIDs in rtnetlink causes kernel warnings and message failures when many VFs are configured, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-22075, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22075, GHSA-pcj7-8ccj-92x9, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-22075, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22075

## What is CVE-2025-22075?

CVE-2025-22075 is a medium-severity denial of service 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:

rtnetlink: Allocate vfinfo size for VF GUIDs when supported

Commit 30aad41721e0 ("net/core: Add support for getting VF GUIDs")
added support for getting VF port and node GUIDs in netlink ifinfo
messages, but their size was not taken into consideration in the
function that allocates the netlink message, causing the following
warning when a netlink message is filled with many VF port and node
GUIDs:
 # echo 64 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:08\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
 # ip link show dev ib0
 RTNETLINK answers: Message too long
 Cannot send link get request: Message too long

Kernel warning:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1930 at net/core/rtnetlink.c:4151 rtnl_getlink+0x586/0x5a0
 Modules linked in: xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter overlay mlx5_ib macsec mlx5_core tls rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_uverbs ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm iw_cm ib_ipoib fuse ib_cm ib_core
 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1930 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #1
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:rtnl_getlink+0x586/0x5a0
 Code: cb 82 e8 3d af 0a 00 4d 85 ff 0f 84 08 ff ff ff 4c 89 ff 41 be ea ff ff ff e8 66 63 5b ff 49 c7 07 80 4f cb 82 e9 36 fc ff ff <0f> 0b e9 16 fe ff ff e8 de a0 56 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00
 RSP: 0018:ffff888113557348 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 00000000ffffffa6 RBX: ffff88817e87aa34 RCX: dffffc0000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88817e87afb8
 RBP: 0000000000000009 R08: ffffffff821f44aa R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: ffff8881260f79a8 R11: ffff88817e87af00 R12: ffff88817e87aa00
 R13: ffffffff8563d300 R14: 00000000ffffffa6 R15: 00000000ffffffff
 FS:  00007f63a5dbf280(0000) GS:ffff88881ee00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f63a5ba4493 CR3: 00000001700fe002 CR4: 0000000000772eb0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __warn+0xa5/0x230
  ? rtnl_getlink+0x586/0x5a0
  ? report_bug+0x22d/0x240
  ? handle_bug+0x53/0xa0
  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x50
  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
  ? skb_trim+0x6a/0x80
  ? rtnl_getlink+0x586/0x5a0
  ? __pfx_rtnl_getlink+0x10/0x10
  ? rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x1e5/0x860
  ? __pfx___mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
  ? stack_trace_save+0x90/0xd0
  ? filter_irq_stacks+0x1d/0x70
  ? kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x40
  ? kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40
  ? kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x860
  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
  ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
  ? arch_stack_walk+0x9e/0xf0
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? lock_acquire+0xd5/0x410
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x210
  ? __pfx_rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_netlink_rcv_skb+0x10/0x10
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? __pfx___netlink_lookup+0x10/0x10
  ? lock_release+0x62/0x200
  ? netlink_deliver_tap+0xfd/0x290
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? lock_release+0x62/0x200
  ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x95/0x290
  netlink_unicast+0x31f/0x480
  ? __pfx_netlink_unicast+0x10/0x10
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? lock_acquire+0xd5/0x410
  netlink_sendmsg+0x369/0x660
  ? lock_release+0x62/0x200
  ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? import_ubuf+0xb9/0xf0
  ? __import_iovec+0x254/0x2b0
  ? lock_release+0x62/0x200
  ? __pfx_netlink_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ____sys_sendmsg+0x559/0x5a0
  ? __pfx_____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_copy_msghdr_from_user+0x10/0x10
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ? do_read_fault+0x213/0x4a0
  ? rcu_is_watching+0x34/0x60
  ___sys_sendmsg+0xe4/0x150
  ? __pfx____sys_sendmsg+0x10/0x10
  ? do_fault+0x2cc/0x6f0
  ? handle_pte_fault+0x2e3/0x3d0
  ? __pfx_handle_pte_fault+0x10/0x10
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## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22075?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-22075?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-22075 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22075 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-22075 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-22075 is a medium-severity denial of service 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-2025-22075 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-2025-22075/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-22075/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22075
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22075
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-22075

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