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CVE-2025-38432
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-07-25T15:15:28.263 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:16:50.800

Summary

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().

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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