{"cve":"CVE-2025-38037","nvd":{"published":"2025-06-18T10:15:36.030","modified":"2026-06-17T09:15:55.653","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: Annotate FDB data races\n\nThe 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be\naccessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as\n[1]. Can be reproduced using [2].\n\nSuppress these reports by annotating these accesses using\nREAD_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().\n\n[1]\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit\n\nwrite to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0:\n vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650\n packet_xmit+0x100/0x150\n packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0\n __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90\n x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00\n do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nread to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2:\n vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380\n dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0\n __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650\n packet_xmit+0x100/0x150\n packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0\n __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90\n x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00\n do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nvalue changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -> 0x00000000fffbac6f\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014\n\n[2]\n #!/bin/bash\n\n set +H\n echo whitelist > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan\n echo !vxlan_xmit > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan\n\n ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1\n bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1\n taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &\n taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02a33b1035a307453a1da6ce0a1bf3676be287d7","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13cba3f837903f7184d6e9b6137d5165ffe82a8f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4eceb7eae6ea7c950384c34e6dbbe872c981935f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/784b78295a3a58bf052339dd669e6e03710220d3","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87d076987a9ba106c83412fcd113656f71af05a1"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:03:23.287444849+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38037","score":0.00225,"percentile":0.13165,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}