{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-38572 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-38572 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Aug 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-2025-38572 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-38572 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Aug 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-2025-38572 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. 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-2025-38572/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38572/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-38572","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-38572/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-38572","record":{"aliases":["AZL-66527","AZL-73854","BELL-CVE-2025-38572","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38572","GHSA-j327-57v5-q43v","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2025-38572","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-38572","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-38572","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-38572","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-38572","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-38572"],"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 crafted IPv6 packet with long extension headers causes an integer overflow in the Linux kernel, leading to a system crash.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"integer_overflow"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nipv6: reject malicious packets in ipv6_gso_segment()\n\nsyzbot was able to craft a packet with very long IPv6 extension headers\nleading to an overflow of skb-\u003etransport_header.\n\nThis 16bit field has a limited range.\n\nAdd skb_reset_transport_header_careful() helper and use it\nfrom ipv6_gso_segment()\n\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5871 at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5871 Comm: syz-executor211 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-g7abc678e3084 #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025\n RIP: 0010:skb_reset_transport_header include/linux/skbuff.h:3032 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:ipv6_gso_segment+0x15e2/0x21e0 net/ipv6/ip6_offload.c:151\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n  skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53\n  nsh_gso_segment+0x54a/0xe10 net/nsh/nsh.c:110\n  skb_mac_gso_segment+0x31c/0x640 net/core/gso.c:53\n  __skb_gso_segment+0x342/0x510 net/core/gso.c:124\n  skb_gso_segment include/net/gso.h:83 [inline]\n  validate_xmit_skb+0x857/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:3950\n  validate_xmit_skb_list+0x84/0x120 net/core/dev.c:4000\n  sch_direct_xmit+0xd3/0x4b0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:329\n  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4102 [inline]\n  __dev_queue_xmit+0x17b6/0x3a70 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