CVE-2025-39962Out-of-bounds Write in Linux

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.166.16.9+1
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.16.9-1
CVEListV5linux/linux9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a71571e187106631a8127f2dde780f35caa358d33+2
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.16.9-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2025-39962: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract Fix the following Smatch static checker war2025-10-09
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 w2025-10-09

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract2025-10-09
Debian
CVE-2025-39962: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix ...2025