Medium severity · published Sep 19, 2025
CVE-2025-39848
ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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()").
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 15% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
2.6.12.1 before 5.4.299; 5.5 before 5.10.243; 5.11 before 5.15.192; 5.16 before 6.1.151; 6.2 before 6.6.105; 6.7 before 6.12.46; +10 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 42b46684e2c78ee052d8c2ee8d9c2089233c9094; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 5b079be1b9da49ad88fc304c874d4be7085f7883; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 2bd0f67212908243ce88e35bf69fa77155b47b14; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 01a2984cb803f2d487b7074f9718db2bf3531f69; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 7d449b7a6c8ee434d10a483feed7c5c50108cf56; 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 89064cf534bea4bb28c83fe6bbb26657b19dd5fe; +3 more · source: vendor
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
SC
SIMATIC CN 4100 · Siemens
before V5.0 · source: CISA