CVE-2025-38146
CVE-2025-38146CVE-2025-38146
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: openvswitch: Fix the dead loop of MPLS parse
The unexpected MPLS packet may not end with the bottom label stack.
When there are many stacks, The label count value has wrapped around.
A dead loop occurs, soft lockup/CPU stuck finally.
stack backtrace:
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in /build/linux-0Pa0xK/linux-5.15.0/net/openvswitch/flow.c:662:26
index -1 is out of range for type '__be32 [3]'
CPU: 34 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/34 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 5.15.0-121-generic #131-Ubuntu
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge C6420/0JP9TF, BIOS 2.12.2 07/14/2021
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
show_stack+0x52/0x5c
dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63
dump_stack+0x10/0x16
ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds.cold+0x44/0x49
key_extract_l3l4+0x82a/0x840 [openvswitch]
? kfree_skbmem+0x52/0xa0
key_extract+0x9c/0x2b0 [openvswitch]
ovs_flow_key_extract+0x124/0x350 [openvswitch]
ovs_vport_receive+0x61/0xd0 [openvsw
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.4 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |