CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-39848

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the ax25_kiss_rcv() function lacks a check for shared skbs before modification, potentially causing skb->dev to become NULL and a system crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely trigger a kernel panic by sending a crafted AX.25 packet, leading to a denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes ax25_kiss_rcv() (commit in mainline).

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Original NVD description (English source)

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()").

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