CVE-2025-68340

Technical Description

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

team: Move team device type change at the end of team_port_add

Attempting to add a port device that is already up will expectedly fail,

but not before modifying the team device header_ops.

In the case of the syzbot reproducer the gre0 device is

already in state UP when it attempts to add it as a

port device of team0, this fails but before that

header_ops->create of team0 is changed from eth_header to ipgre_header

in the call to team_dev_type_check_change.

Later when we end up in ipgre_header() struct ip_tunnel* points to nonsense

as the private data of the device still holds a struct team.

Example sequence of iproute2 commands to reproduce the hang/BUG():

ip link add dev team0 type team

ip link add dev gre0 type gre

ip link set dev gre0 up

ip link set dev gre0 master team0

ip link set dev team0 up

ping -I team0 1.1.1.1

Move team_dev_type_check_change down where all other checks have passed

as it changes the dev t

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References