CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39826

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's ROSE (Radio Amateur) subsystem, the 'use' field in struct rose_neigh was converted from unsigned short to refcount_t. The previous implementation lacked atomicity, leading to race conditions and potential use-after-free.

Risk Assessment

Organizations using ROSE networks (e.g., amateur radio or industrial communication) risk system crashes or remote code execution due to a race condition when freeing rose_neigh structures.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit with refcount_t). Check your distribution (e.g., Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian) for available patches and apply them.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: rose: convert 'use' field to refcount_t The 'use' field in struct rose_neigh is used as a reference counter but lacks atomicity. This can lead to race conditions where a rose_neigh structure is freed while still being referenced by other code paths. For example, when rose_neigh->use becomes zero during an ioctl operation via rose_rt_ioctl(), the structure may be removed while its timer is still active, potentially causing use-after-free issues. This patch changes the type of 'use' from unsigned short to refcount_t and updates all code paths to use rose_neigh_hold() and rose_neigh_put() which operate reference counts atomically.

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