CVE-2025-39962 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
Fix the following Smatch static checker warning:
net/rxrpc/rxgk_app.c:65 rxgk_yfs_decode_ticket()
warn: untrusted unsigned subtract. 'ticket_len - 10 * 4'
by prechecking the length of what we're trying to extract in two places in
the token and decoding for a response packet.
Also use sizeof() on the struct we're extracting rather specifying the size
numerically to be consistent with th…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a — 71571e187106631a8127f2dde780f35caa358d33+2
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2025-39962: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract Fix the following Smatch static checker war↗2025-10-09
GHSA▶
GHSA-mhrx-xqmx-r77g: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
Fix the following Smatch static checker w↗2025-10-09