VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2025-38432
CVSS score5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-07-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: netpoll: Initialize UDP checksum field before checksumming commit f1fce08e63fe ("netpoll: Eliminate redundant assignment") removed the initialization of the UDP checksum, which was wrong and broke netpoll IPv6 transmission due to bad checksumming. udph->check needs to be set before calling csum_ipv6_magic().
Weakness classification
- nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo