CVE-2025-41236

The CVE-2025-41236 issue is an integer-overflow in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter used by VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. A local VM administrator can exploit this to execute code on the host; non‑VMXNET3 adapters are unaffected. Connected IBM advisory confirms the same vulnerability a...

CVE-2025-41236 VMXNET3 integer-overflow vulnerability

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine with VMXNET3 virtual network adapter may exploit this issue to execute code on the host. Non VMXNET3...

PT-2025-29584

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion versions affected versions not specified Description VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local...

CVE-2025-41236: Out-of-bounds Write

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain an integer-overflow vulnerability in the VMXNET3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine with VMXNET3 virtual network adapter may exploit this issue to execute code on the host. Non VMXNET3...

VMware’s various products have buffer error vulnerabilities

VMWare ESXi and others are products of VMWare, Inc. VMWare ESXi is an enterprise-grade Type-1 hypervisor developed by VMWare, Inc. that can be installed and run directly on physical server hardware without relying on the underlying operating system for efficient creation and management of virtual...

kernel: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3_process_xdp

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vmxnet3 network driver. When processing network packets using the eXpress Data Path XDP, an incorrect packet size calculation causes transmitted network frames to be padded with uninitialized kernel memory. A remote network recipient or observer receiving...

RHEL 9 : kpatch-patch-5_14_0-570_17_1 (RHSA-2025:10674)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:10674 advisory. This is a kernel live patch module which can be loaded by the kpatch command line utility to modify the code of a running kernel. This patch module ...

kernel: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3_process_xdp

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vmxnet3 network driver. When processing network packets using the eXpress Data Path XDP, an incorrect packet size calculation causes transmitted network frames to be padded with uninitialized kernel memory. A remote network recipient or observer receiving...

kernel: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3_process_xdp

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's vmxnet3 network driver. When processing network packets using the eXpress Data Path XDP, an incorrect packet size calculation causes transmitted network frames to be padded with uninitialized kernel memory. A remote network recipient or observer receiving...

kernel: vmxnet3: Fix packet corruption in vmxnet3_xdp_xmit_frame

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's vmxnet3 network driver in the vmxnet3xdpxmitframe function. An incorrect DMA address calculation caused by the use of a fixed rather than dynamic offset leads to a corrupt packet being sent out and subsequently dropped on the path. This can lead to...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: vmxnet3: Fixed malformed packet sizes in vmxnet3processxdp. The XDP handling of the vmxnet3 driver is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 i.e., packet sizes between 128 and 3k bytes. We noticed connectivity issues related to MT...

Important: kernel6.12

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: do proper folio cleanup when cowfilerange failed CVE-2024-57976 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kernel: be more careful about dupmmap failures and uprobe registering...

CVE-2020-3971

VMware ESXi 6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201907101-SG, Workstation 15.x before 15.0.2, and Fusion 11.x before 11.0.2 contain a heap overflow vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with a vmxnet3...

kernel: vmxnet3: Fix packet corruption in vmxnet3_xdp_xmit_frame

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's vmxnet3 network driver in the vmxnet3xdpxmitframe function. An incorrect DMA address calculation caused by the use of a fixed rather than dynamic offset leads to a corrupt packet being sent out and subsequently dropped on the path. This can lead to...

CVE-2025-37799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...

SUSE CVE-2025-37799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...

CVE-2025-37799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-37799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-37799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...

CVE-2025-37799 vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3_process_xdp

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vmxnet3: Fix malformed packet sizing in vmxnet3processxdp vmxnet3 driver's XDP handling is buggy for packet sizes using ring0 that is, packet sizes between 128 - 3k bytes. We noticed MTU-related connectivity issues with Cilium's...