THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-21629 (HIGH 8.2) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets
The blamed commit disabled hardware offoad of IPv6 packets with
extension headers on devices that advertise NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM,
based on the definition
[NVD] CVE-2025-21629 (HIGH 8.2) — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets The blamed commit disabled hardware offoad of IPv6 packets with extension headers on devices that advertise NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM, based on the definition
CVE-2025-21629 CVSS: 8.2 HIGH Published: 2025-01-15T13:15:15.220
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: reenable NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM offload for BIG TCP packets
The blamed commit disabled hardware offoad of IPv6 packets with extension headers on devices that advertise NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM, based on the definition of that feature in skbuff.h:
* * - %NETIF_F_IPV6_
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2025-21629cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21629