{"id":"CVE-2025-22056","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_tunnel: fix geneve_opt type confusion addition\n\nWhen handling multiple NFTA_TUNNEL_KEY_OPTS_GENEVE attributes, the\nparsing logic should place every genev…","summary":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_tunnel: fix geneve_opt type confusion addition\n\nWhen handling multiple NFTA_TUNNEL_KEY_OPTS_GENEVE attributes, the\nparsing logic should place every genev…","severity":"high","cvss":7.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-787"],"vendor":"linux","product":"linux_kernel","affected":["linux_kernel >= 5.7, < 5.10.236","linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.180","linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.134","linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.87","linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.23","linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.13.11","linux_kernel >= 6.14, < 6.14.2"],"patched":["linux_kernel 6.14.2"],"published":"2025-04-16","updated":"2026-07-14","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22056","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a93a710d6df334b828ea064c6d39fda34f901dc","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b755d8eb1ace3870789d48fbd94f386ad6e30be","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28d88ee1e1cc8ac2d79aeb112717b97c5c833d43","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31d49eb436f2da61280508d7adf8c9b473b967aa","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/446d94898c560ed2f61e26ae445858a4c4830762","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/708e268acb3a446ad2a8a3d2e9bd41cc23660cd6","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a263d31c8c92e5919d41af57d9479cfb66323782","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca2adfc03cd6273f0b589fe65afc6f75e0fe116e","label":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html","label":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html","label":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.0032,"epssPercentile":0.22295,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-14T13:36:56.220Z","ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2025-10-01T17:41:22.716014Z"},"slug":"CVE-2025-22056","body":"## Overview\n\nIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nft_tunnel: fix geneve_opt type confusion addition\n\nWhen handling multiple NFTA_TUNNEL_KEY_OPTS_GENEVE attributes, the\nparsing logic should place every geneve_opt structure one by one\ncompactly. Hence, when deciding the next geneve_opt position, the\npointer addition should be in units of char *.\n\nHowever, the current implementation erroneously does type conversion\nbefore the addition, which will lead to heap out-of-bounds write.\n\n[    6.989857] ==================================================================\n[    6.990293] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nft_tunnel_obj_init+0x977/0xa70\n[    6.990725] Write of size 124 at addr ffff888005f18974 by task poc/178\n[    6.991162]\n[    6.991259] CPU: 0 PID: 178 Comm: poc-oob-write Not tainted 6.1.132 #1\n[    6.991655] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n[    6.992281] Call Trace:\n[    6.992423]  <TASK>\n[    6.992586]  dump_stack_lvl+0x44/0x5c\n[    6.992801]  print_report+0x184/0x4be\n[    6.993790]  kasan_report+0xc5/0x100\n[    6.994252]  kasan_check_range+0xf3/0x1a0\n[    6.994486]  memcpy+0x38/0x60\n[    6.994692]  nft_tunnel_obj_init+0x977/0xa70\n[    6.995677]  nft_obj_init+0x10c/0x1b0\n[    6.995891]  nf_tables_newobj+0x585/0x950\n[    6.996922]  nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0xdf9/0x1020\n[    6.998997]  nfnetlink_rcv+0x1df/0x220\n[    6.999537]  netlink_unicast+0x395/0x530\n[    7.000771]  netlink_sendmsg+0x3d0/0x6d0\n[    7.001462]  __sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xa0\n[    7.001707]  ____sys_sendmsg+0x409/0x450\n[    7.002391]  ___sys_sendmsg+0xfd/0x170\n[    7.003145]  __sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x170\n[    7.004359]  do_syscall_64+0x5e/0x90\n[    7.005817]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n[    7.006127] RIP: 0033:0x7ec756d4e407\n[    7.006339] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 faf\n[    7.007364] RSP: 002b:00007ffed5d46760 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e\n[    7.007827] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ec756cc4740 RCX: 00007ec756d4e407\n[    7.008223] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffed5d467f0 RDI: 0000000000000003\n[    7.008620] RBP: 00007ffed5d468a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\n[    7.009039] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000\n[    7.009429] R13: 00007ffed5d478b0 R14: 00007ec756ee5000 R15: 00005cbd4e655cb8\n\nFix this bug with correct pointer addition and conversion in parse\nand dump code.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `linux_kernel >= 5.7, < 5.10.236`\n- `linux_kernel >= 5.11, < 5.15.180`\n- `linux_kernel >= 5.16, < 6.1.134`\n- `linux_kernel >= 6.2, < 6.6.87`\n- `linux_kernel >= 6.7, < 6.12.23`\n- `linux_kernel >= 6.13, < 6.13.11`\n- `linux_kernel >= 6.14, < 6.14.2`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `linux_kernel 6.14.2`","depth":"twilight","depthScore":43,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.9,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}