CVE-2025-37921

vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry

Published May 20, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry

When a VNI is deleted from a VXLAN device in 'vnifilter' mode, the FDB
entry associated with the default remote (assuming one was configured)
is deleted without holding the hash lock. This is wrong and will result
in a warning [1] being generated by the lockdep annotation that was
added by commit ebe642067455 ("vxlan: Create wrappers for FDB lookup").

Reproducer:

# ip link add vx0 up type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter local 192.0.2.1
# bridge vni add vni 10010 remote 198.51.100.1 dev vx0
# bridge vni del vni 10010 dev vx0

Fix by acquiring the hash lock before the deletion and releasing it
afterwards. Blame the original commit that introduced the issue rather
than the one that exposed it.

[1]
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 392 at drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:417 vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0
[...]
RIP: 0010:vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__vxlan_fdb_delete+0xbe/0x560
vxlan_vni_delete_group+0x2ba/0x940
vxlan_vni_del.isra.0+0x15f/0x580
vxlan_process_vni_filter+0x38b/0x7b0
vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x3bb/0x510
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f7/0xb70
netlink_rcv_skb+0x131/0x360
netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710
netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20
__sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150
____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0
___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180
__sys_sendmsg+0x121/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-4271-1 linux-6.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5925-1 linux security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-15924 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry When a VNI is deleted from a VXLAN device in 'vnifilter' mode, the FDB entry associated with the default remote (assuming one was configured) is deleted without holding the hash lock. This is wrong and will result in a warning [1] being generated by the lockdep annotation that was added by commit ebe642067455 ("vxlan: Create wrappers for FDB lookup"). Reproducer: # ip link add vx0 up type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter local 192.0.2.1 # bridge vni add vni 10010 remote 198.51.100.1 dev vx0 # bridge vni del vni 10010 dev vx0 Fix by acquiring the hash lock before the deletion and releasing it afterwards. Blame the original commit that introduced the issue rather than the one that exposed it. [1] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 392 at drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:417 vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] RIP: 0010:vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __vxlan_fdb_delete+0xbe/0x560 vxlan_vni_delete_group+0x2ba/0x940 vxlan_vni_del.isra.0+0x15f/0x580 vxlan_process_vni_filter+0x38b/0x7b0 vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x3bb/0x510 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f7/0xb70 netlink_rcv_skb+0x131/0x360 netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710 netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20 __sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180 __sys_sendmsg+0x121/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7649-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7649-2 Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7650-1 Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7665-1 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7665-2 Linux kernel (AWS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7721-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-2 Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8031-1 Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-3 Linux kernel (Real-time) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-4 Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-5 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8031-2 Linux kernel (GCP FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-6 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8031-3 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8052-1 Linux kernel (Low Latency) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-7 Linux kernel (Low Latency NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8028-8 Linux kernel (IBM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8052-2 Linux kernel (Xilinx) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8074-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8074-2 Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8126-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry When a VNI is deleted from a VXLAN device in 'vnifilter' mode, the FDB entry associated with the default remote (assuming one was configured) is deleted without holding the hash lock. This is wrong and will result in a warning [1] being generated by the lockdep annotation that was added by commit ebe642067455 ("vxlan: Create wrappers for FDB lookup"). Reproducer: # ip link add vx0 up type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter local 192.0.2.1 # bridge vni add vni 10010 remote 198.51.100.1 dev vx0 # bridge vni del vni 10010 dev vx0 Fix by acquiring the hash lock before the deletion and releasing it afterwards. Blame the original commit that introduced the issue rather than the one that exposed it. [1] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 392 at drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c:417 vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] RIP: 0010:vxlan_find_mac+0x17f/0x1a0 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __vxlan_fdb_delete+0xbe/0x560 vxlan_vni_delete_group+0x2ba/0x940 vxlan_vni_del.isra.0+0x15f/0x580 vxlan_process_vni_filter+0x38b/0x7b0 vxlan_vnifilter_process+0x3bb/0x510 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2f7/0xb70 netlink_rcv_skb+0x131/0x360 netlink_unicast+0x426/0x710 netlink_sendmsg+0x75a/0xc20 __sock_sendmsg+0xc1/0x150 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5aa/0x7b0 ___sys_sendmsg+0xfc/0x180 __sys_sendmsg+0x121/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Title vxlan: vnifilter: Fix unlocked deletion of default FDB entry
References
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
Oct 15, 2026, 9:52 PM
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025, 4:51 AM
Status
Modified
Published
May 20, 2025, 4:15 PM
Modified
Oct 15, 2026, 10:18 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
May 20, 2025, 12:00 AM