CVE-2025-39827

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in ROSE Node Reference Counting

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rose: include node references in rose_neigh refcount Current implementation maintains two separate reference counting mechanisms: the 'count' field in struct rose_neigh tracks references from rose_node structures, while the 'use' field (now refcount_t) tracks references from rose_sock. This patch merges these two reference counting systems using 'use' field for proper reference management. Specifically, this patch adds incrementing and decrementing of rose_neigh->use when rose_neigh->count is incremented or decremented. This patch also modifies rose_rt_free(), rose_rt_device_down() and rose_clear_route() to properly release references to rose_neigh objects before freeing a rose_node through rose_remove_node(). These changes ensure rose_neigh structures are properly freed only when all references, including those from rose_node structures, are released. As a result, this resolves a slab-use-after-free issue reported by Syzbot.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.3%
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 (20)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 6.1.150linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.5linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.104linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.45linux
Linux/Linux < 2.6.12
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 384210cceb1873a4c8218b27ba0745444436b728
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 4cce478c3e82a5fc788d72adb2f4c4e983997639
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 9c547c8eee9d1cf6e744611d688b9f725cf9a115
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - d7563b456ed44151e1a82091d96f60166daea89b
... and 10 more
Published Sep 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026