CVE-2025-39848

MEDIUM

Linux kernel - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv() Bernard Pidoux reported a regression apparently caused by commit c353e8983e0d ("net: introduce per netns packet chains"). skb->dev becomes NULL and we crash in __netif_receive_skb_core(). Before above commit, different kind of bugs or corruptions could happen without a major crash. But the root cause is that ax25_kiss_rcv() can queue/mangle input skb without checking if this skb is shared or not. Many thanks to Bernard Pidoux for his help, diagnosis and tests. We had a similar issue years ago fixed with commit 7aaed57c5c28 ("phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()").

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (11)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
linux/Kernel 2.6.12 - 5.4.299linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.192linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.151linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.243linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.16.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.105linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.46linux
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.12 (5 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.17 rc1 (4 CPE variants)
... and 1 more
Published Sep 19, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026