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CVE-2025-38432
medium
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().
References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5990207026987a353d5a95204c4d9cb725637fd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/353016ec159f939a380ff6746476a779367ba9a3