CVE-2025-21765 (GCVE-0-2025-21765)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-27 02:18
Modified
2026-08-05 11:54
Severity ?
8.1 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: use RCU protection in ip6_default_advmss() ip6_default_advmss() needs rcu protection to make sure the net structure it reads does not disappear.
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Linux Linux Version: 5578689a4e3c04f2d43ea39736fd3fa396d80c6e
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