Description

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

net: libwx: fix Tx L4 checksum

The hardware only supports L4 checksum offload for TCP/UDP/SCTP protocol.
There was a bug to set Tx checksum flag for the other protocol that results
in Tx ring hang. Fix to compute software checksum for these packets.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22101

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.26% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22101
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f583e059eced1857f41e221ef5951e029e632bd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7d82913d5f9e97860772ee4051eaa66b56a6273

Timeline