CVE-2025-38675 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-38675

xfrm: state: initialize state_ptrs earlier in xfrm_state_find

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: state: initialize state_ptrs earlier in xfrm_state_find In case of preemption, xfrm_state_look_at will find a different pcpu_id and look up states for that other CPU. If we matched a state for CPU2 in the state_cache while the lookup started on CPU1, we will jump to "found", but the "best" state that we got will be ignored and we will enter the "acquire" block. This block uses state_ptrs, which isn't initialized at this point. Let's initialize state_ptrs just after taking rcu_read_lock. This will also prevent a possible misuse in the future, if someone adjusts this function.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
a16871c7832ea6435abb6e0b58289ae7dcb7e4fc, e952837f3ddb0ff726d5b582aa1aad9aa38d024d, b86dc510308d7a8955f3f47a4fea4bef887653e4, dd4c2a174994238d55ab54da2545543d36f4e0d0, 6.12.13, 6.6.120, 6.13.2, 6.14, 0, 6.12.41, 6.15.9, 6.16

Timeline

Official Publish: August 22nd, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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