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CVE-2025-39965

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI x->id.spi == 0 means "no SPI assigned", but s…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI x->id.spi == 0 means "no SPI assigned", but since commit 94f39804d891 ("xfrm: Duplicate SPI Handling"), we now create states and add them to the byspi list with this value. __xfrm_state_delete doesn't remove those states from the byspi list, since they shouldn't be there, and this shows up as a UAF the next time we go through the byspi list.

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-10-13 14:15
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:18
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥6.6.103 <6.6.109, ≥6.12.43 <6.12.50, ≥6.15.11 <6.16, ≥6.16.2 <6.16.10, 6.17

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0baf92d0b1590b903c1f4ead75e61715e50e8146
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fcedabaae0096f712bbb4ccca6a8538af1cd1c8
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a78e55776522373c446f18d5002a8de4b09e6bf7
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd8ae32e4e4652db55bce6b9c79267d8946765a9

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC · record ↗

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