CVE-2025-40236 (GCVE-0-2025-40236)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-04 15:31
Modified
2025-12-04 15:31
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio-net: zero unused hash fields When GSO tunnel is negotiated virtio_net_hdr_tnl_from_skb() tries to initialize the tunnel metadata but forget to zero unused rxhash fields. This may leak information to another side. Fixing this by zeroing the unused hash fields.
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Linux Linux Version: a2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420
Version: a2fb4bc4e2a6a031683910d85b278c1d25ae5420
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