CVE-2025-39848
ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()
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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()").
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42b46684e2c78ee052d8c2ee8d9c2089233c9094
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b079be1b9da49ad88fc304c874d4be7085f7883
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bd0f67212908243ce88e35bf69fa77155b47b14
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a2984cb803f2d487b7074f9718db2bf3531f69
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d449b7a6c8ee434d10a483feed7c5c50108cf56
References (11)
CVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
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