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CVE-2025-38432

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2025-07-25 Modified: 2026-06-17

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().

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References