CVE-2025-38545 net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix skb size by accounting for skb_shared_info

What is CVE-2025-38545?

CVE-2025-38545 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Aug 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw-nuss: Fix skb size by accounting for skb_shared_info

While transitioning from netdev_alloc_ip_align() to build_skb(), memory for the "skb_shared_info" member of an "skb" was not allocated. Fix this by allocating "PAGE_SIZE" as the skb length, accounting for the packet length, headroom and tailroom, thereby including the required memory space for skb_shared_info.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-38545?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-38545?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2025-38545 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38545 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-38545, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38545, GHSA-7jx7-g6pm-43wc, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-38545, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38545.