{"cve":"CVE-2025-39848","nvd":{"published":"2025-09-19T16:15:43.640","modified":"2026-10-19T21:10:00.160","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()\n\nBernard Pidoux reported a regression apparently caused by commit\nc353e8983e0d (\"net: introduce per netns packet chains\").\n\nskb->dev becomes NULL and we crash in __netif_receive_skb_core().\n\nBefore above commit, different kind of bugs or corruptions could happen\nwithout a major crash.\n\nBut the root cause is that ax25_kiss_rcv() can queue/mangle input skb\nwithout checking if this skb is shared or not.\n\nMany thanks to Bernard Pidoux for his help, diagnosis and tests.\n\nWe had a similar issue years ago fixed with commit 7aaed57c5c28\n(\"phonet: properly unshare skbs in phonet_rcv()\").","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":["CWE-401"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a2984cb803f2d487b7074f9718db2bf3531f69","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bd0f67212908243ce88e35bf69fa77155b47b14","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42b46684e2c78ee052d8c2ee8d9c2089233c9094","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b079be1b9da49ad88fc304c874d4be7085f7883","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d449b7a6c8ee434d10a483feed7c5c50108cf56"],"products":["debian:debian_linux","linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-39848","score":0.00241,"percentile":0.15138,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}