{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39852 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-39852 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-39852 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-39852 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39852 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39852/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39852/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-39852","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39852/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-39852","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-39852","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39852","GHSA-774g-c8xq-c2v2","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-39852","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-39852","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39852"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's TCP-AO IPv6 handling allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting kernel memory.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-401","name":"Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/tcp: Fix socket memory leak in TCP-AO failure handling for IPv6\n\nWhen tcp_ao_copy_all_matching() fails in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock() it just\nexits the function. This ends up causing a memory-leak:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff0000281a8200 (size 2496):\n  comm \"softirq\", pid 0, jiffies 4295174684\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    7f 00 00 06 7f 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 cb a8 88 13  ................\n    0a 00 03 61 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...a............\n  backtrace (crc 5ebdbe15):\n    kmemleak_alloc+0x44/0xe0\n    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x248/0x470\n    sk_prot_alloc+0x48/0x120\n    sk_clone_lock+0x38/0x3b0\n    inet_csk_clone_lock+0x34/0x150\n    tcp_create_openreq_child+0x3c/0x4a8\n    tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock+0x1c0/0x620\n    tcp_check_req+0x588/0x790\n    tcp_v6_rcv+0x5d0/0xc18\n    ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x2d8/0x4c0\n    ip6_input_finish+0x74/0x148\n    ip6_input+0x50/0x118\n    ip6_sublist_rcv+0x2fc/0x3b0\n    ipv6_list_rcv+0x114/0x170\n    __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x16c/0x200\n    netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1f0/0x2d0\n\nThis is because in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock (and the IPv4 counterpart), when\nexiting upon error, inet_csk_prepare_forced_close() and tcp_done() need\nto be called. They make sure the newsk will end up being correctly\nfree'd.\n\ntcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() makes this very clear by having the put_and_exit\nlabel that takes care of things. So, this patch here makes sure\ntcp_v4_syn_recv_sock and tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock have similar\nerror-handling and thus fixes the leak for TCP-AO.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net/tcp: Fix socket memory leak in TCP-AO failure handling for IPv6","id":"CVE-2025-39852","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty","id":"CVE-2025-39853"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"vxlan: Fix NPD when refreshing an FDB entry with a nexthop object","id":"CVE-2025-39851"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-09-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel's TCP-AO IPv6 handling allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting kernel memory.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39852/"}