CVE-2025-38532

net: libwx: properly reset Rx ring descriptor

CVE-2025-38532 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38532, released August 16, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.1
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0017
6th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: libwx: properly reset Rx ring descriptor When device reset is triggered by feature changes such as toggling Rx VLAN offload, wx->do_reset() is called to reinitialize Rx rings. The hardware descriptor ring may retain stale values from previous sessions. And only set the length to 0 in rx_desc[0] would result in building malformed SKBs. Fix it to ensure a clean slate after device reset. [ 549.186435] [ C16] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 549.186457] [ C16] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2814! [ 549.186468] [ C16] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 549.186472] [ C16] CPU: 16 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0-rc4+ #23 PREEMPT(voluntary) [ 549.186476] [ C16] Hardware name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E16/X670E GAMING PLUS WIFI (MS-7E16), BIOS 1.90 12/31/2024 [ 549.186478] [ C16] RIP: 0010:__pskb_pull_tail+0x3ff/0x510 [ 549.186484] [ C16] Code: 06 f0 ff 4f 34 74 7b 4d 8b 8c 24 c8 00 00 00 45 8b 84 24 c0 00 00 00 e9 c8 fd ff ff 48 c7 44 24 08 00 00 00 00 e9 5e fe ff ff <0f> 0b 31 c0 e9 23 90 5b ff 41 f7 c6 ff 0f 00 00 75 bf 49 8b 06 a8 [ 549.186487] [ C16] RSP: 0018:ffffb391c0640d70 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 549.186490] [ C16] RAX: 00000000fffffff2 RBX: ffff8fe7e4d40200 RCX: 00000000fffffff2 [ 549.186492] [ C16] RDX: ffff8fe7c3a4bf8e RSI: 0000000000000180 RDI: ffff8fe7c3a4bf40 [ 549.186494] [ C16] RBP: ffffb391c0640da8 R08: ffff8fe7c3a4c0c0 R09: 000000000000000e [ 549.186496] [ C16] R10: ffffb391c0640d88 R11: 000000000000000e R12: ffff8fe7e4d40200 [ 549.186497] [ C16] R13: 00000000fffffff2 R14: ffff8fe7fa01a000 R15: 00000000fffffff2 [ 549.186499] [ C16] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8fef5ae40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 549.186502] [ C16] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 549.186503] [ C16] CR2: 00007f77d81d6000 CR3: 000000051a032000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0 [ 549.186505] [ C16] PKRU: 55555554 [ 549.186507] [ C16] Call Trace: [ 549.186510] [ C16] <IRQ> [ 549.186513] [ C16] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 549.186517] [ C16] __skb_pad+0xc7/0xf0 [ 549.186523] [ C16] wx_clean_rx_irq+0x355/0x3b0 [libwx] [ 549.186533] [ C16] wx_poll+0x92/0x120 [libwx] [ 549.186540] [ C16] __napi_poll+0x28/0x190 [ 549.186544] [ C16] net_rx_action+0x301/0x3f0 [ 549.186548] [ C16] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 549.186551] [ C16] ? __raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x1e/0x50 [ 549.186554] [ C16] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 549.186557] [ C16] ? wake_up_nohz_cpu+0x35/0x160 [ 549.186559] [ C16] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 549.186563] [ C16] handle_softirqs+0xf9/0x2c0 [ 549.186568] [ C16] __irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x130 [ 549.186572] [ C16] common_interrupt+0xb8/0xd0 [ 549.186576] [ C16] </IRQ> [ 549.186577] [ C16] <TASK> [ 549.186579] [ C16] asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40 [ 549.186582] [ C16] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xc2/0x420 [ 549.186585] [ C16] Code: 00 00 e8 11 0e 5e ff e8 ac f0 ff ff 49 89 c5 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 ff e8 0d ed 5c ff 45 84 ff 0f 85 40 02 00 00 fb 0f 1f 44 00 00 <45> 85 f6 0f 88 84 01 00 00 49 63 d6 48 8d 04 52 48 8d 04 82 49 8d [ 549.186587] [ C16] RSP: 0018:ffffb391c0277e78 EFLAGS: 00000246 [ 549.186590] [ C16] RAX: ffff8fef5ae40000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 549.186591] [ C16] RDX: 0000007fde0faac5 RSI: ffffffff826e53f6 RDI: ffffffff826fa9b3 [ 549.186593] [ C16] RBP: ffff8fe7c3a20800 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 549.186595] [ C16] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000ffff R12: ffffffff82ed7a40 [ 549.186596] [ C16] R13: 0000007fde0faac5 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 549.186601] [ C16] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xb3/0x420 [ 549.186605] [ C16] cpuidle_en ---truncated---

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.41-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38532 Aug 16, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.16.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38532 Aug 16, 2025

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