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CVE-2025-40238— net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device

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Affected
Linux Linux
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Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于IPsec清理过程中未正确处理MPV设备事件，可能导致空指针解引用。

AI Predicted 5.5 Difficulty: Moderate EPSS 0.20% · P9

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1211 · Exploitation for Stealth

Affected Version Matrix 8

VendorProduct Version RangeStatus
Linux Linux 82f9378c443c206d3f9e45844306e5270e7e4109< 7e212cebc863c2c7a82f480446cd731721451691 affected
82f9378c443c206d3f9e45844306e5270e7e4109< 8956686d398eca6d324d2d164f9d2a281175a3a1 affected
82f9378c443c206d3f9e45844306e5270e7e4109< 664f76be38a18c61151d0ef248c7e2f3afb4f3c7 affected
6.7 affected
< 6.7 unaffected
6.12.56≤ 6.12.* unaffected
6.17.6≤ 6.17.* unaffected
6.18≤ * unaffected
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2025-40238

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Vulnerability Title
net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device When we do mlx5e_detach_netdev() we eventually disable blocking events notifier, among those events are IPsec MPV events from IB to core. So before disabling those blocking events, make sure to also unregister the devcom device and mark all this device operations as complete, in order to prevent the other device from using invalid netdev during future devcom events which could cause the trace below. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 PGD 146427067 P4D 146427067 PUD 146488067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7735 Comm: devlink Tainted: GW 6.12.0-rc6_for_upstream_min_debug_2024_11_08_00_46 #1 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core] Code: 00 01 48 83 05 23 32 1e 00 01 41 b8 ed ff ff ff e9 60 ff ff ff 48 83 05 00 32 1e 00 01 eb e3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 10 48 83 05 5f 32 1e 00 01 48 8b 50 40 48 85 d2 74 05 40 RSP: 0018:ffff88811a5c35f8 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: ffff888106e8ab80 RBX: ffff888107d7e200 RCX: ffff88810d6f0a00 RDX: ffff88810d6f0a00 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88811a17e620 R08: 0000000000000040 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff88811a5c3618 R11: 0000000de85d51bd R12: ffff88811a17e600 R13: ffff88810d6f0a00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8881034bda80 FS: 00007f27bdf89180(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000010f159005 CR4: 0000000000372eb0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x20/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x3e0 ? exc_page_fault+0x74/0x130 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_devcom_event_mpv+0x42/0x60 [mlx5_core] mlx5_devcom_send_event+0x8c/0x170 [mlx5_core] blocking_event+0x17b/0x230 [mlx5_core] notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xa0 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60 mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core] mlx5_core_mp_event_replay+0x12/0x20 [mlx5_core] mlx5_ib_bind_slave_port+0x228/0x2c0 [mlx5_ib] mlx5_ib_stage_init_init+0x664/0x9d0 [mlx5_ib] ? idr_alloc_cyclic+0x50/0xb0 ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x167/0x340 ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x1a7/0x430 __mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib] mlx5r_probe+0xe9/0x310 [mlx5_ib] ? kernfs_add_one+0x107/0x150 ? __mlx5_ib_add+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_ib] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3e/0x90 really_probe+0xc5/0x3a0 ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90 __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160 driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90 __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100 bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0 __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0 bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0 device_add+0x62d/0x830 __auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0 ? auxiliary_device_init+0x41/0x90 add_adev+0xd1/0x150 [mlx5_core] mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x21c/0x300 [mlx5_core] esw_mode_change+0x6c/0xc0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x21e/0x640 [mlx5_core] devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x60/0xe0 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd0/0x120 genl_rcv_msg+0x180/0x2b0 ? devlink_get_from_attrs_lock+0x170/0x170 ? devlink_nl_eswitch_get_doit+0x290/0x290 ? devlink_nl_pre_doit_port_optional+0x50/0x50 ? genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0xf0/0xf0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x1fc/0x2d0 netlink_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x410 __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60 ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x60 __sys_sendto+0x105/0x160 ? __sys_recvmsg+0x4e/0x90 __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f27bc91b13a Code: bb 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 05 fa 96 2c 00 45 89 c9 4c 63 d1 48 63 ff 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff ---truncated---
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Title
Linux kernel 安全漏洞
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Description
Linux kernel是美国Linux基金会的开源操作系统Linux所使用的内核。 Linux kernel存在安全漏洞，该漏洞源于IPsec清理过程中未正确处理MPV设备事件，可能导致空指针解引用。
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database)

Affected Products

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Linux Linux 82f9378c443c206d3f9e45844306e5270e7e4109 ~ 7e212cebc863c2c7a82f480446cd731721451691 -
Linux Linux 6.7 -

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Same Patch Batch · Linux · 2025-12-04 · 53 CVEs total

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CVE-2025-40252 9.8 CRITICAL net: qlogic/qede: fix potential out-of-bounds read in qede_tpa_cont() and qede_tpa_end()
CVE-2025-40258 9.8 CRITICAL mptcp: fix race condition in mptcp_schedule_work()
CVE-2025-40257 9.8 CRITICAL mptcp: fix a race in mptcp_pm_del_add_timer()
CVE-2025-40253 8.8 HIGH s390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree
CVE-2025-40266 8.2 HIGH KVM: arm64: Check the untrusted offset in FF-A memory share
CVE-2025-40244 7.8 HIGH hfsplus: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in __hfsplus_ext_cache_extent()
CVE-2025-40251 7.8 HIGH devlink: rate: Unset parent pointer in devl_rate_nodes_destroy
CVE-2025-40262 7.8 HIGH Input: imx_sc_key - fix memory corruption on unload
CVE-2025-40250 7.8 HIGH net/mlx5: Clean up only new IRQ glue on request_irq() failure
CVE-2025-40248 7.8 HIGH vsock: Ignore signal/timeout on connect() if already established
CVE-2025-40249 7.8 HIGH gpio: cdev: make sure the cdev fd is still active before emitting events
CVE-2025-40245 7.8 HIGH nios2: ensure that memblock.current_limit is set when setting pfn limits
CVE-2025-40214 7.8 HIGH af_unix: Initialise scc_index in unix_add_edge().
CVE-2025-40243 7.8 HIGH hfs: fix KMSAN uninit-value issue in hfs_find_set_zero_bits()
CVE-2025-40241 7.8 HIGH erofs: fix crafted invalid cases for encoded extents
CVE-2025-40233 7.8 HIGH ocfs2: clear extent cache after moving/defragmenting extents
CVE-2025-40216 7.8 HIGH io_uring/rsrc: don't rely on user vaddr alignment
CVE-2025-40215 7.8 HIGH xfrm: delete x->tunnel as we delete x
CVE-2025-40240 7.5 HIGH sctp: avoid NULL dereference when chunk data buffer is missing

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