Bug 2396948 (CVE-2025-39848) - CVE-2025-39848 kernel: ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()
Summary: CVE-2025-39848 kernel: ax25: properly unshare skbs in ax25_kiss_rcv()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-39848
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-19 16:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-19 16:03:38 UTC
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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