CVE-2025-38640 - Vulnerability Details

- bpf: Disable migration in nf_hook_run_bpf().

Description

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

bpf: Disable migration in nf_hook_run_bpf().

syzbot reported that the netfilter bpf prog can be called without
migration disabled in xmit path.

Then the assertion in __bpf_prog_run() fails, triggering the splat
below. [0]

Let's use bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() in nf_hook_run_bpf().

[0]:
BUG: assuming non migratable context at ./include/linux/filter.h:703
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, migration_disabled() 0 pid: 5829, name: sshd-session
3 locks held by sshd-session/5829:
#0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1667 [inline]
#0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: tcp_sendmsg+0x20/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1395
#1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
#1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
#1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __ip_queue_xmit+0x69/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:470
#2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
#2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline]
#2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: nf_hook+0xb2/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:241
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5829 Comm: sshd-session Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-00002-g155a3c003e55 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
__cant_migrate kernel/sched/core.c:8860 [inline]
__cant_migrate+0x1c7/0x250 kernel/sched/core.c:8834
__bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:703 [inline]
bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]
nf_hook_run_bpf+0x83/0x1e0 net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c:20
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xbb/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:623
nf_hook+0x370/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:272
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:305 [inline]
ip_output+0x1bc/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:433
dst_output include/net/dst.h:459 [inline]
ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:129 [inline]
__ip_queue_xmit+0x1d7d/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:527
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x2686/0x3e90 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1479
tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1497 [inline]
tcp_write_xmit+0x1274/0x84e0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2838
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0xaf/0x390 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3021
tcp_push+0x225/0x700 net/ipv4/tcp.c:759
tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x1870/0x42b0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1359
tcp_sendmsg+0x2e/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1396
inet_sendmsg+0xb9/0x140 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
sock_write_iter+0x4aa/0x5b0 net/socket.c:1131
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6c7/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0x1f8/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe7d365d407
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 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP:

Published: 2025-08-22

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Linux

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`fd9c663b9ad67dedfc9a3fd3429ddd3e83782b4d`	affected	< ee2502485702e4398cd74dbfb288bfa111d25e62
`fd9c663b9ad67dedfc9a3fd3429ddd3e83782b4d`	affected	< 62f6175d145e00fc999fd2fcbffad3f59253c66a
`fd9c663b9ad67dedfc9a3fd3429ddd3e83782b4d`	affected	< e0199c28167a8a4adec036005a8df268b2b68529
`fd9c663b9ad67dedfc9a3fd3429ddd3e83782b4d`	affected	< 0a356da16fb933abbeeb7aea038c351f3342cd3f
`fd9c663b9ad67dedfc9a3fd3429ddd3e83782b4d`	affected	< 17ce3e5949bc37557305ad46316f41c7875d6366

Linux

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`6.4`	affected	—
`0`	unaffected	< 6.4
`6.6.102`	unaffected	≤ 6.6.*
`6.12.42`	unaffected	≤ 6.12.*
`6.15.10`	unaffected	≤ 6.15.*
`6.16.1`	unaffected	≤ 6.16.*
`6.17`	unaffected	≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Linux	Linux Kernel	—	—

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-25562	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Disable migration in nf_hook_run_bpf(). syzbot reported that the netfilter bpf prog can be called without migration disabled in xmit path. Then the assertion in __bpf_prog_run() fails, triggering the splat below. [0] Let's use bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() in nf_hook_run_bpf(). [0]: BUG: assuming non migratable context at ./include/linux/filter.h:703 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, migration_disabled() 0 pid: 5829, name: sshd-session 3 locks held by sshd-session/5829: #0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1667 [inline] #0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: tcp_sendmsg+0x20/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1395 #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline] #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline] #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __ip_queue_xmit+0x69/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:470 #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline] #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline] #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: nf_hook+0xb2/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:241 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5829 Comm: sshd-session Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-00002-g155a3c003e55 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 __cant_migrate kernel/sched/core.c:8860 [inline] __cant_migrate+0x1c7/0x250 kernel/sched/core.c:8834 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:703 [inline] bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline] nf_hook_run_bpf+0x83/0x1e0 net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c:20 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline] nf_hook_slow+0xbb/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:623 nf_hook+0x370/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:272 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:305 [inline] ip_output+0x1bc/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:433 dst_output include/net/dst.h:459 [inline] ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:129 [inline] __ip_queue_xmit+0x1d7d/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:527 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x2686/0x3e90 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1479 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1497 [inline] tcp_write_xmit+0x1274/0x84e0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2838 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0xaf/0x390 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3021 tcp_push+0x225/0x700 net/ipv4/tcp.c:759 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x1870/0x42b0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1359 tcp_sendmsg+0x2e/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1396 inet_sendmsg+0xb9/0x140 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline] sock_write_iter+0x4aa/0x5b0 net/socket.c:1131 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x6c7/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x1f8/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fe7d365d407 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 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff RSP:
Ubuntu USN	USN-7879-1	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7879-2	Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7880-1	Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7879-3	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7879-4	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-7934-1	Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-1	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-2	Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8031-1	Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-3	Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-4	Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-5	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8031-2	Linux kernel (GCP FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-6	Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8031-3	Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8052-1	Linux kernel (Low Latency) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-7	Linux kernel (Low Latency NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8028-8	Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8052-2	Linux kernel (Xilinx) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8074-1	Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8074-2	Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN	USN-8126-1	Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00021.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a356da16fb933abbeeb7aea038c351f3342cd3f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ce3e5949bc37557305ad46316f41c7875d6366
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f6175d145e00fc999fd2fcbffad3f59253c66a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0199c28167a8a4adec036005a8df268b2b68529
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee2502485702e4398cd74dbfb288bfa111d25e62
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025082234-CVE-2025-38640-e7a9@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38640
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38640

History

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025082234-CVE-2025-38640-e7a9@gregkh/T https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38640 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38640
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Low`

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Disable migration in nf_hook_run_bpf(). syzbot reported that the netfilter bpf prog can be called without migration disabled in xmit path. Then the assertion in __bpf_prog_run() fails, triggering the splat below. [0] Let's use bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu() in nf_hook_run_bpf(). [0]: BUG: assuming non migratable context at ./include/linux/filter.h:703 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, migration_disabled() 0 pid: 5829, name: sshd-session 3 locks held by sshd-session/5829: #0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1667 [inline] #0: ffff88807b4e4218 (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: tcp_sendmsg+0x20/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1395 #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline] #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline] #1: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: __ip_queue_xmit+0x69/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:470 #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline] #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:841 [inline] #2: ffffffff8e5c4e00 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: nf_hook+0xb2/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:241 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5829 Comm: sshd-session Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-syzkaller-00002-g155a3c003e55 #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 __cant_migrate kernel/sched/core.c:8860 [inline] __cant_migrate+0x1c7/0x250 kernel/sched/core.c:8834 __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:703 [inline] bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline] nf_hook_run_bpf+0x83/0x1e0 net/netfilter/nf_bpf_link.c:20 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline] nf_hook_slow+0xbb/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:623 nf_hook+0x370/0x680 include/linux/netfilter.h:272 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:305 [inline] ip_output+0x1bc/0x2a0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:433 dst_output include/net/dst.h:459 [inline] ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:129 [inline] __ip_queue_xmit+0x1d7d/0x26c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:527 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x2686/0x3e90 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1479 tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1497 [inline] tcp_write_xmit+0x1274/0x84e0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:2838 __tcp_push_pending_frames+0xaf/0x390 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3021 tcp_push+0x225/0x700 net/ipv4/tcp.c:759 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x1870/0x42b0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1359 tcp_sendmsg+0x2e/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1396 inet_sendmsg+0xb9/0x140 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline] __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline] sock_write_iter+0x4aa/0x5b0 net/socket.c:1131 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x6c7/0x1150 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_write+0x1f8/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7fe7d365d407 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 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff RSP:
Title		bpf: Disable migration in nf_hook_run_bpf().
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a356da16fb933abbeeb7aea038c351f3342cd3f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ce3e5949bc37557305ad46316f41c7875d6366 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62f6175d145e00fc999fd2fcbffad3f59253c66a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0199c28167a8a4adec036005a8df268b2b68529 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee2502485702e4398cd74dbfb288bfa111d25e62

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Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-08-22T16:00:46.760Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T21:32:07.844Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:24.030Z

Link: CVE-2025-38640

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-08-22T16:15:38.007

Modified: 2025-11-26T16:36:32.227

Link: CVE-2025-38640

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2025-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2025-38640 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-08-23T10:55:25Z

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Tracking

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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