# CVE-2025-21925

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2025-21925
- **Severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS Score:** 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
- **CWE:** N/A
- **Published:** Apr 1, 2025
- **Last Modified:** Sep 8, 2026

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

llc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()

syzbot is able to crash hosts [1], using llc and devices
not supporting IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING.

In this case, e1000 driver calls eth_skb_pad(), while
the skb is shared.

Simply replace skb_get() by skb_clone() in net/llc/llc_s_ac.c

Note that e1000 driver might have an issue with pktgen,
because it does not clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING, this is an
orthogonal change.

We need to audit other skb_get() uses in net/llc.

[1]

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16371 Comm: syz.2.2764 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00052-gac9c34d1e45a #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0x6ce/0x1240 net/core/skbuff.c:2178
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  __skb_pad+0x18a/0x610 net/core/skbuff.c:2466
  __skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3843 [inline]
  skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3862 [inline]
  eth_skb_pad include/linux/etherdevice.h:656 [inline]
  e1000_xmit_frame+0x2d99/0x5800 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3128
  __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]
  netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]
  xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3806 [inline]
  dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3822
  sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
  __dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4045 [inline]
  __dev_queue_xmit+0x13d4/0x43e0 net/core/dev.c:4621
  dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3313 [inline]
  llc_sap_action_send_test_c+0x268/0x320 net/llc/llc_s_ac.c:144
  llc_exec_sap_trans_actions net/llc/llc_sap.c:153 [inline]
  llc_sap_next_state net/llc/llc_sap.c:182 [inline]
  llc_sap_state_process+0x239/0x510 net/llc/llc_sap.c:209
  llc_ui_sendmsg+0xd0d/0x14e0 net/llc/af_llc.c:993
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]

## Affected Products

- Linux — Linux (1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2)
- Linux — Linux (2.6.12)
- Linux — Linux (0)
- Linux — Linux (5.4.291)
- Linux — Linux (5.10.235)
- Linux — Linux (5.15.179)
- Linux — Linux (6.1.131)
- Linux — Linux (6.6.83)
- Linux — Linux (6.12.19)
- Linux — Linux (6.13.7)
- Linux — Linux (6.14)

## References

- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd1c44327bbbd50fc24f2b38892f5f328b784d0f)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13f3f872627f0f27c31245524fc11367756240ad)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b6f083db141ece0024be01526aa05aa978811cb)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17f86e25431ebc15aa9245ff156414fdad47822d)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/416e8b4c20c6398044e93008deefd563289f477d)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f764208dc24ea043c3e20194d32aebf94f8459c)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/056e8a46d79e22983bae4267e0d9c52927076f46)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64e6a754d33d31aa844b3ee66fb93ac84ca1565e)
- [CVE](https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html)
- [CVE](https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html)
- [siemens-SADP](https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.22%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 12.7

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-17._