CVE-2025-23163

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23163
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-23163.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-23163
Related
Published
2025-05-01T13:15:52Z
Modified
2025-05-30T01:05:28.733561Z
Downstream
Summary
[none]
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: vlan: don't propagate flags on open

With the device instance lock, there is now a possibility of a deadlock:

[ 1.211455] ============================================ [ 1.211571] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 1.211687] 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 Not tainted [ 1.211823] -------------------------------------------- [ 1.211936] ip/184 is trying to acquire lock: [ 1.212032] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: devsetallmulti+0x4e/0xb0 [ 1.212207] [ 1.212207] but task is already holding lock: [ 1.212332] ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: devopen+0x50/0xb0 [ 1.212487] [ 1.212487] other info that might help us debug this: [ 1.212626] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 1.212626] [ 1.212751] CPU0 [ 1.212815] ---- [ 1.212871] lock(&dev->lock); [ 1.212944] lock(&dev->lock); [ 1.213016] [ 1.213016] * DEADLOCK * [ 1.213016] [ 1.213143] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 1.213143] [ 1.213294] 3 locks held by ip/184: [ 1.213371] #0: ffffffff838b53e0 (rtnlmutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnlnetslock+0x1b/0xa0 [ 1.213543] #1: ffffffff84e5fc70 (&net->rtnlmutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnlnetslock+0x37/0xa0 [ 1.213727] #2: ffff8881024a4c30 (&dev->lock){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: devopen+0x50/0xb0 [ 1.213895] [ 1.213895] stack backtrace: [ 1.213991] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 184 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-01215-g032756b4ca7a-dirty #5 [ 1.213993] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 [ 1.213994] Call Trace: [ 1.213995] <TASK> [ 1.213996] dumpstacklvl+0x8e/0xd0 [ 1.214000] printdeadlockbug+0x28b/0x2a0 [ 1.214020] lockacquire+0xea/0x2a0 [ 1.214027] mutexlock+0xbf/0xd40 [ 1.214038] devsetallmulti+0x4e/0xb0 # realdev->flags & IFFALLMULTI [ 1.214040] vlandevopen+0xa5/0x170 # ndoopen on vlandev [ 1.214042] _devopen+0x145/0x270 [ 1.214046] _devchangeflags+0xb0/0x1e0 [ 1.214051] netifchangeflags+0x22/0x60 # IFFUP vlandev [ 1.214053] devchangeflags+0x61/0xb0 # for each device in group from dev->vlaninfo [ 1.214055] vlandeviceevent+0x766/0x7c0 # on netdevsim0 [ 1.214058] notifiercallchain+0x78/0x120 [ 1.214062] netifopen+0x6d/0x90 [ 1.214064] devopen+0x5b/0xb0 # locks netdevsim0 [ 1.214066] bondenslave+0x64c/0x1230 [ 1.214075] dosetmaster+0x175/0x1e0 # on netdevsim0 [ 1.214077] dosetlink+0x516/0x13b0 [ 1.214094] rtnlnewlink+0xaba/0xb80 [ 1.214132] rtnetlinkrcvmsg+0x440/0x490 [ 1.214144] netlinkrcvskb+0xeb/0x120 [ 1.214150] netlinkunicast+0x1f9/0x320 [ 1.214153] netlinksendmsg+0x346/0x3f0 [ 1.214157] _socksendmsg+0x86/0xb0 [ 1.214160] _syssendmsg+0x1c8/0x220 [ 1.214164] _syssendmsg+0x28f/0x2d0 [ 1.214179] _x64syssendmsg+0xef/0x140 [ 1.214184] dosyscall64+0xec/0x1d0 [ 1.214190] entrySYSCALL64after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f [ 1.214191] RIP: 0033:0x7f2d1b4a7e56

Device setup:

 netdevsim0 (down)
 ^        ^

bond netdevsim1.100@netdevsim1 allmulticast=on (down)

When we enslave the lower device (netdevsim0) which has a vlan, we propagate vlan's allmuti/promisc flags during ndoopen. This causes (re)locking on of the realdev.

Propagate allmulti/promisc on flags change, not on the open. There is a slight semantics change that vlans that are down now propagate the flags, but this seems unlikely to result in the real issues.

Reproducer:

echo 0 1 > /sys/bus/netdevsim/new_device

devpath=$(ls -d /sys/bus/netdevsim/devices/netdevsim0/net/*) dev=$(echo $devpath | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev)

ip link set dev $dev name netdevsim0 ip link set dev netdevsim0 up

ip link add link netdevsim0 name netdevsim0.100 type vlan id 100 ip link set dev netdevsim0.100 allm ---truncated---

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.237-1

Affected versions

5.*

5.10.46-4
5.10.46-5
5.10.70-1~bpo10+1
5.10.70-1
5.10.84-1
5.10.92-1~bpo10+1
5.10.92-1
5.10.92-2
5.10.103-1~bpo10+1
5.10.103-1
5.10.106-1
5.10.113-1
5.10.120-1~bpo10+1
5.10.120-1
5.10.127-1
5.10.127-2~bpo10+1
5.10.127-2
5.10.136-1
5.10.140-1
5.10.148-1
5.10.149-1
5.10.149-2
5.10.158-1
5.10.158-2
5.10.162-1
5.10.178-1
5.10.178-2
5.10.178-3
5.10.179-1
5.10.179-2
5.10.179-3
5.10.179-4
5.10.179-5
5.10.191-1
5.10.197-1
5.10.205-1
5.10.205-2
5.10.209-1
5.10.209-2
5.10.216-1
5.10.218-1
5.10.221-1
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
5.10.234-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.135-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1
6.1.90-1
6.1.94-1~bpo11+1
6.1.94-1
6.1.98-1
6.1.99-1
6.1.106-1
6.1.106-2
6.1.106-3
6.1.112-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.1.123-1
6.1.124-1
6.1.128-1
6.1.129-1
6.1.133-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.12.25-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1
6.1.90-1
6.1.94-1~bpo11+1
6.1.94-1
6.1.98-1
6.1.99-1
6.1.106-1
6.1.106-2
6.1.106-3
6.1.112-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.1.123-1
6.1.124-1
6.1.128-1
6.1.129-1
6.1.133-1
6.1.135-1
6.1.137-1
6.1.139-1
6.1.140-1
6.3.1-1~exp1
6.3.2-1~exp1
6.3.4-1~exp1
6.3.5-1~exp1
6.3.7-1~bpo12+1
6.3.7-1
6.3.11-1
6.4~rc6-1~exp1
6.4~rc7-1~exp1
6.4.1-1~exp1
6.4.4-1~bpo12+1
6.4.4-1
6.4.4-2
6.4.4-3~bpo12+1
6.4.4-3
6.4.11-1
6.4.13-1
6.5~rc4-1~exp1
6.5~rc6-1~exp1
6.5~rc7-1~exp1
6.5.1-1~exp1
6.5.3-1~bpo12+1
6.5.3-1
6.5.6-1
6.5.8-1
6.5.10-1~bpo12+1
6.5.10-1
6.5.13-1
6.6.3-1~exp1
6.6.4-1~exp1
6.6.7-1~exp1
6.6.8-1
6.6.9-1
6.6.11-1
6.6.13-1~bpo12+1
6.6.13-1
6.6.15-1
6.6.15-2
6.7-1~exp1
6.7.1-1~exp1
6.7.4-1~exp1
6.7.7-1
6.7.9-1
6.7.9-2
6.7.12-1~bpo12+1
6.7.12-1
6.8.9-1
6.8.11-1
6.8.12-1~bpo12+1
6.8.12-1
6.9.2-1~exp1
6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
6.9.7-1
6.9.8-1
6.9.9-1
6.9.10-1~bpo12+1
6.9.10-1
6.9.11-1
6.9.12-1
6.10-1~exp1
6.10.1-1~exp1
6.10.3-1
6.10.4-1
6.10.6-1~bpo12+1
6.10.6-1
6.10.7-1
6.10.9-1
6.10.11-1~bpo12+1
6.10.11-1
6.10.12-1
6.11~rc4-1~exp1
6.11~rc5-1~exp1
6.11-1~exp1
6.11.2-1
6.11.4-1
6.11.5-1~bpo12+1
6.11.5-1
6.11.6-1
6.11.7-1
6.11.9-1
6.11.10-1~bpo12+1
6.11.10-1
6.12~rc6-1~exp1
6.12.3-1
6.12.5-1
6.12.6-1
6.12.8-1
6.12.9-1~bpo12+1
6.12.9-1
6.12.9-1+alpha
6.12.10-1
6.12.11-1
6.12.11-1+alpha
6.12.11-1+alpha.1
6.12.12-1~bpo12+1
6.12.12-1
6.12.13-1
6.12.15-1
6.12.16-1
6.12.17-1
6.12.19-1
6.12.20-1
6.12.21-1
6.12.22-1~bpo12+1
6.12.22-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:11 / linux-6.1

Package

Name
linux-6.1
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux-6.1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.1.137-1~deb11u1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.106-3~deb11u1
6.1.106-3~deb11u2
6.1.106-3~deb11u3
6.1.112-1~deb11u1
6.1.119-1~deb11u1
6.1.128-1~deb11u1
6.1.129-1~deb11u1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}