{"cve":"CVE-2025-38441","nvd":{"published":"2025-07-25T16:15:29.497","modified":"2026-06-17T09:16:51.760","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: flowtable: account for Ethernet header in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()\n\nsyzbot found a potential access to uninit-value in nf_flow_pppoe_proto()\n\nBlamed commit forgot the Ethernet header.\n\nBUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27\n  nf_flow_offload_inet_hook+0x7e4/0x940 net/netfilter/nf_flow_table_inet.c:27\n  nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:157 [inline]\n  nf_hook_slow+0xe1/0x3d0 net/netfilter/core.c:623\n  nf_hook_ingress include/linux/netfilter_netdev.h:34 [inline]\n  nf_ingress net/core/dev.c:5742 [inline]\n  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x4aff/0x70c0 net/core/dev.c:5837\n  __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5975 [inline]\n  __netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:6090\n  netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6176 [inline]\n  netif_receive_skb+0x57/0x630 net/core/dev.c:6235\n  tun_rx_batched+0x1df/0x980 drivers/net/tun.c:1485\n  tun_get_user+0x4ee0/0x6b40 drivers/net/tun.c:1938\n  tun_chr_write_iter+0x3e9/0x5c0 drivers/net/tun.c:1984\n  new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]\n  vfs_write+0xb4b/0x1580 fs/read_write.c:686\n  ksys_write fs/read_write.c:738 [inline]\n  __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:749 [inline]","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":["CWE-908"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18cdb3d982da8976b28d57691eb256ec5688fad2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fbc49429a23b02595ba82536c5ea425fdabb221","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3aea97d55964e70a1e6426aa4cafdc036e8a2dd","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cfbf0665969af2c69d10c377d4c3d306e717efb4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0dd2e9729660f3f4fcb16e0aef87342911528ef"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:05:46.678065081+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-38441","score":0.00191,"percentile":0.08798,"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."]}