CVE-2025-39764
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 2.6.23-6.16.2 - Memory Leak via Netfilter Expectation Dumper Refcounting
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that as the skip hint for dump resumption. AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack dumper, when we do if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use)) to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html
Vendor Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
5.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (25)
linux/Kernel
2.6.23 - 5.10.253linux
linux/Kernel
2.6.23 - 6.16.2linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.203linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.167linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.16.2linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.130linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.78linux
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.23
Linux/Linux
2.6.23
Linux/Linux
5.10.253 - 5.10.*
... and 15 more
Published
Sep 11, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026