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()").

CVSS 3.1

5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-401

Published

2025-09-19

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• debian:debian_linux
• linux:linux_kernel

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

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