CVE-2025-37997
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.2%
6.5th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-667
Published 2025-05-29 · modified 2026-07-30
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
| Attack Vector | L | Local |
| Attack Complexity | L | Low |
| Privileges Required | L | Low |
| User Interaction | N | None |
| Scope | U | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | H | High |
| Integrity | H | High |
| Availability | H | High |
Timeline
- 2025-05-29 — Published (NVD)
- 2026-07-30 — Last modified (NVD)
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ipset: fix region locking in hash types Region locking introduced in v5.6-rc4 contained three macros to handle the region locks: ahash_bucket_start(), ahash_bucket_end() which gave back the start and end hash bucket values belonging to a given region lock and ahash_region() which should give back the region lock belonging to a given hash bucket. The latter was incorrect which can lead to a race condition between the garbage collector and adding new elements when a hash type of set is defined with timeouts.
Affected
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00cfc5fad1491796942a948808afb968a0a3f35b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/226ce0ec38316d9e3739e73a64b6b8304646c658
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e002ecc1c8cfdfc866b9104ab7888da54613e59
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c1eb32693bc48251d92532975e19160987e5b9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8478a729c0462273188263136880480729e9efca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3dfec485401943e315c394c29afe2db8f9481d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa77294b0f73bb8265987591460cd25b8722c3df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2ab67672b2288521a6146034a971f9a82ffc5c5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html