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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-BPFTOOL-13983089
  • published14 Nov 2025
  • disclosed12 Nov 2025

Introduced: 12 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-40170  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by Centos.

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

net: use dst_dev_rcu() in sk_setup_caps()

Use RCU to protect accesses to dst->dev from sk_setup_caps() and sk_dst_gso_max_size().

Also use dst_dev_rcu() in ip6_dst_mtu_maybe_forward(), and ip_dst_mtu_maybe_forward().

ip4_dst_hoplimit() can use dst_dev_net_rcu().