CVE-2025-21791EPSS p17.7%
CVE-2025-21791CVE-2025-21791
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vrf: use RCU protection in l3mdev_l3_out()
l3mdev_l3_out() can be called without RCU being held:
raw_sendmsg()
ip_push_pending_frames()
ip_send_skb()
ip_local_out()
__ip_local_out()
l3mdev_ip_out()
Add rcu_read_lock() / rcu_read_unlock() pair to avoid
a potential UAF.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.27% probability of exploitation · percentile 17.7% · 2026-10-17T12:00:28Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-15 |