CVE-2025-38465 — netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.

Affected: Linux, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

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

netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.

Netlink has this pattern in some places

if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) > sk->sk_rcvbuf) atomic_add(skb->truesize, &sk->sk_rmem_alloc);

, which has the same problem fixed by commit 5a465a0da13e ("udp: Fix multiple wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.").

For example, if we set INT_MAX to SO_RCVBUFFORCE, the condition is always false as the two operands are of int.

Then, a single socket can eat as many skb as possible until OOM happens, and we can see multiple wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.

Let's fix it by using atomic_add_return() and comparing the two variables as unsigned int.

Before: [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port -1668710080 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/293 *

After: [root@fedora ~]# ss -f netlink Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port 2147483072 0 rtnl:nl_wraparound/290 * ^ `--- INT_MAX - 576

USN-7774-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-i…

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-intel-iotg-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp and 10 more

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - ACPI drivers; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Drivers core; - ATA over ethernet (AOE) driver; - Network block device driver; - Bus devices; - Clock framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device (Miscellaneous) drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - VMware VMCI Driver; - MMC subsystem; - MTD block device drivers; - Network drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - PTP clock framework; - RapidIO drivers; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - Remote Processor subsystem; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI subsystem; - ASPEED SoC drivers; - TCM subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - USB Gadget drivers; - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers; - USB Type-C support driver; - Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; - Backlight driver; - Framebuffer layer; - BTRFS file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Ext4 file system; - F2FS file system; - JFFS2 file system; - JFS file system; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file syst…

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CVE-2025-38465 — netlink: Fix wraparounds of sk->sk_rmem_alloc.

USN-7774-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-i…