{"cve":"CVE-2025-71098","nvd":{"published":"2026-01-13T16:16:09.703","modified":"2026-10-19T19:17:11.767","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nip6_gre: make ip6gre_header() robust\n\nOver the years, syzbot found many ways to crash the kernel\nin ip6gre_header() [1].\n\nThis involves team or bonding drivers ability to dynamically\nchange their dev->needed_headroom and/or dev->hard_header_len\n\nIn this particular crash mld_newpack() allocated an skb\nwith a too small reserve/headroom, and by the time mld_sendpack()\nwas called, syzbot managed to attach an ip6gre device.\n\n[1]\nskbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8a1d69a8 len:136 put:40 head:ffff888059bc7000 data:ffff888059bc6fe8 tail:0x70 end:0x6c0 dev:team0\n------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:213 !\n <TASK>\n  skb_under_panic net/core/skbuff.c:223 [inline]\n  skb_push+0xc3/0xe0 net/core/skbuff.c:2641\n  ip6gre_header+0xc8/0x790 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:1371\n  dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]\n  neigh_connected_output+0x286/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1618\n  neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:556 [inline]\n  ip6_finish_output2+0xfb3/0x1480 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136\n __ip6_finish_output net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:-1 [inline]\n  ip6_finish_output+0x234/0x7d0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:220\n  NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]\n  ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247\n  NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318\n  mld_sendpack+0x8d4/0xe60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1855\n  mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2154 [inline]\n  mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2693","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-476","CWE-119"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1717357007db150c2d703f13f5695460e960f26c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e7386234f740f3e7d5e58a47b5847ea34c3bc2","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41a1a3140aff295dee8063906f70a514548105e8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fe210533e3459197eabfdbf97327dacbdc04d60","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91a2b25be07ce1a7549ceebbe82017551d2eec92"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-71098","score":0.0014,"percentile":0.03351,"date":"2026-10-25"},"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."]}