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()").
References (10)
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