Packet drops via signed UDP accounting wraparound
Published Apr 16, 2025 · Updated Jun 11, 2026
Integer overflow in Linux kernel UDP memory accounting allows local users to cause packet drops via crafted socket operations. udp_destruct_common() passes an unsigned receive-queue byte total to the signed size parameter of udp_rmem_release(), where wraparound inflates udp_memory_allocated. Triggering the flaw requires permission to set SO_RCVBUFFORCE to INT_MAX; exhausted UDP accounting blocks further allocations and drops packets without reported code execution.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in Linux kernel UDP memory accounting allows local users to cause packet drops via crafted socket operations. udp_destruct_common() passes an unsigned receive-queue byte total to the signed size parameter of udp_rmem_release(), where wraparound inflates udp_memory_allocated. Triggering the flaw requires permission to set SO_RCVBUFFORCE to INT_MAX; exhausted UDP accounting blocks further allocations and drops packets without reported code execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-22058
- Published
- Apr 16, 2025
- Updated
- Jun 11, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-401, CWE-190, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=4.10
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <13550273171f5108b1ac572d8f72f4256ab92854
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <3836029448e76c1e6f77cc5fe0adc09b018b5fa8
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <9122fec396950cc866137af7154b1d0d989be52e
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <a116b271bf3cb72c8155b6b7f39083c1b80dcd00
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <aeef6456692c6f11ae53d278df64f1316a2a405a
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <c3ad8c30b6b109283d2643e925f8e65f2e7ab34e
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <c4bac6c398118fba79e32b1cd01db22dbfe29fbf
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <d9c8266ce536e8314d84370e983afcaa36fb19cf
- Affected versionversion=f970bd9e3a06f06df8d8ecf1f8ad2c8615cc17eb <df207de9d9e7a4d92f8567e2c539d9c8c12fd99d
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