CVE-2025-21716

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel, specifically in the vxlan vnifilter dump() function. The issue arises when the length of the netlink message payload is less than the size of the struct tunnel msg, causing the function to access bytes beyond the message. This can lead to uninit-value access. The vulnerability was reported by KMSAN, which detected an uninit-value access in vxlan vnifilter dump().

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.