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CVE-2025-39848

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()").

  • Published: Sep 19, 2025
  • Updated: Jan 21, 2026
  • CVE: CVE-2025-39848
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12.1 5.4.299
linux / linux_kernel 5.5 5.10.243
linux / linux_kernel 5.11 5.15.192
linux / linux_kernel 5.16 6.1.151
linux / linux_kernel 6.2 6.6.105
linux / linux_kernel 6.7 6.12.46
linux / linux_kernel 6.13 6.16.6
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12 2.6.12.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12-rc2 2.6.12-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12-rc3 2.6.12-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12-rc4 2.6.12-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 2.6.12-rc5 2.6.12-rc5.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.17-rc1 6.17-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.17-rc2 6.17-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.17-rc3 6.17-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.17-rc4 6.17-rc4.x
debian / debian_linux 11.0 11.0.x