CVE-2025-40236

Summary

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

virtio-net: zero unused hash fields

When GSO tunnel is negotiated virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() tries to initialize the tunnel metadata but forget to zero unused rxhash fields. This may leak information to another side. Fixing this by zeroing the unused hash fields.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420 < b625d231c66a6041e98817ffc944bf6e4c45b2e3affected
LinuxLinuxa2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420 < b2284768c6b32aa224ca7d0ef0741beb434f03aaaffected
LinuxLinux6.17affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.17unaffected
LinuxLinux6.17.6 <= 6.17.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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