{"id":"CVE-2025-38459","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-38459","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:13:08.029Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: atm: clip: Fix infinite recursive call of clip_push(). syzbot reported the splat below. [0] This happens if we call ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) more than once.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\natm: clip: Fix infinite recursive call of clip_push().\n\nsyzbot reported the splat below. [0]\n\nThis happens if we call ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) more than once.\n\nDuring the first call, clip_mkip() sets clip_push() to vcc->push(),\nand the second call copies it to clip_vcc->old_push().\n\nLater, when the socket is close()d, vcc_destroy_socket() passes\nNULL skb to clip_push(), which calls clip_vcc->old_push(),\ntriggering the infinite recursion.\n\nLet's prevent the second ioctl(ATMARP_MKIP) by checking\nvcc->user_back, which is allocated by the first call as clip_vcc.\n\nNote also that we use lock_sock() to prevent racy calls.\n\n[0]:\nBUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000d66fff8 (stack is ffffc9000d670000..ffffc9000d678000)\nOops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5322 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:clip_push+0x5/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:191\nCode: e0 8f aa 8c e8 1c ad 5b fa eb ae 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 55 <41> 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 48 89 f3 49 89 fd 48 bd 00\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000d670000 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: 1ffff1100235a4a5 RBX: ffff888011ad2508 RCX: ffff8880003c0000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888037f01000\nRBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff8fa104f7 R09: 1ffffffff1f4209e\nR10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffffff8a99b300 R12: ffffffff8a99b300\nR13: ffff888037f01000 R14: ffff888011ad2500 R15: ffff888037f01578\nFS:  000055557ab6d500(0000) GS:ffff88808d250000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffc9000d66fff8 CR3: 0000000043172000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n...\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n clip_push+0x6dc/0x720 net/atm/clip.c:200\n vcc_destroy_socket net/atm/common.c:183 [inline]\n vcc_release+0x157/0x460 net/atm/common.c:205\n __sock_release net/socket.c:647 [inline]\n sock_close+0xc0/0x240 net/socket.c:1391\n __fput+0x449/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:465\n task_work_run+0x1d1/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227\n resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xec/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:114\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:330 [inline]\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:414 [inline]\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:449 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\nRIP: 0033:0x7ff31c98e929\nCode: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007fffb5aa1f78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4\nRAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000012747 RCX: 00007ff31c98e929\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00007ff31cbb7ba0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000db5aa226f\nR10: 00007ff31c7ff030 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ff31cbb608c\nR13: 00007ff31cbb6080 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007fffb5aa2090\n </TASK>\nModules linked in:","published":"2025-07-25T16:15:32.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:16:54.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-674","CWE-787"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00206,"percentile":0.10559,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/024876b247a882972095b22087734dcd23396a4e","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/125166347d5676466d368aadc0bbc31ee7714352","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1579a2777cb914a249de22c789ba4d41b154509f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f61b997fe014bbfcc208a9fcbd363a1fe7e3a31","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5641019dfbaee5e85fe093b590f0451c9dd4d6f8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c489f3283dbfc0f3c00c312149cae90d27552c45","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df0312d8859763aa15b8b56ac151a1ea4a4e5b88","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f493f31a63847624fd3199ac836a8bd8828e50e2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38459","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}