Description

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

ipvs: fix uninit-value for saddr in do_output_route4

syzbot reports for uninit-value for the saddr argument [1].
commit 4754957f04f5 ("ipvs: do not use random local source address for
tunnels") already implies that the input value of saddr
should be ignored but the code is still reading it which can prevent
to connect the route. Fix it by changing the argument to ret_saddr.

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in do_output_route4+0x42c/0x4d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:147
do_output_route4+0x42c/0x4d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:147
__ip_vs_get_out_rt+0x403/0x21d0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:330
ip_vs_tunnel_xmit+0x205/0x2380 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_xmit.c:1136
ip_vs_in_hook+0x1aa5/0x35b0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:2063
nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline]
nf_hook_slow+0xf7/0x400 net/netfilter/core.c:626
nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:269 [inline]
__ip_local_out+0x758/0x7e0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:118
ip_local_out net/ipv4/ip_output.c:127 [inline]
ip_send_skb+0x6a/0x3c0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1501
udp_send_skb+0xfda/0x1b70 net/ipv4/udp.c:1195
udp_sendmsg+0x2fe3/0x33c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:1483
inet_sendmsg+0x1fc/0x280 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:851
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x267/0x380 net/socket.c:727
____sys_sendmsg+0x91b/0xda0 net/socket.c:2566
___sys_sendmsg+0x28d/0x3c0 net/socket.c:2620
__sys_sendmmsg+0x41d/0x880 net/socket.c:2702...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37961

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.93% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-18 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37961
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d0032112a0380d0b8d7c9005f621928a9b9fc76
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adbc8cc1162951cb152ed7f147d5fbd35ce3e62f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0160ac84fb03a0bd8dce8a42cb25bfaeedd110f4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3a1b784791a3cbfc6e05c4d8a3c321ac5136e25
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e34090d7214e0516eb8722aee295cb2507317c07

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