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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-37997

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 7.61% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-09 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-37997
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82c1eb32693bc48251d92532975e19160987e5b9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa77294b0f73bb8265987591460cd25b8722c3df
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3dfec485401943e315c394c29afe2db8f9481d6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2ab67672b2288521a6146034a971f9a82ffc5c5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e002ecc1c8cfdfc866b9104ab7888da54613e59
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8478a729c0462273188263136880480729e9efca

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