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 products
linux: linux kernel; debian: debian linux
References10
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/01a2984cb803f2d487b7074f9718db2bf3531f69 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bd0f67212908243ce88e35bf69fa77155b47b14 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/42b46684e2c78ee052d8c2ee8d9c2089233c9094 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b079be1b9da49ad88fc304c874d4be7085f7883 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d449b7a6c8ee434d10a483feed7c5c50108cf56 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8156210d36a43e76372312c87eb5ea3dbb405a85 Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/89064cf534bea4bb28c83fe6bbb26657b19dd5fe Patch
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1c71d674a308d2fbc83efcf88bfc4217a86aa17 Patch
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.5
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 15 · as of 8 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-401
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