{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-39979 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-39979 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Oct 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-2025-39979 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-39979 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Oct 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-2025-39979 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2025-39979/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39979/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-39979","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39979/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-39979","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-39979","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-39979","GHSA-52rq-cpwv-rvvm","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-39979"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's mlx5 network driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via crafted flow counter operations.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release\n\nFix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an HWS action of a local flow\ncounter in mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte(), where the HWS action refcount and\nmutex were not initialized and the counter struct could already be freed\nwhen deleting the rule.\n\nFix it by adding the missing initializations and adding refcount for the\nlocal flow counter struct.\n\n[1] Kernel log:\n Call Trace:\n  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48\n  mlx5_fs_put_hws_action.part.0.cold+0x21/0x94 [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_fc_put_hws_action+0x96/0xad [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_fs_destroy_fs_actions+0x8b/0x152 [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte+0x5a/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\n  del_hw_fte+0x1ce/0x260 [mlx5_core]\n  mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x12d/0x240 [mlx5_core]\n  ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xf4/0x110\n  mlx5_ib_destroy_flow+0x103/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib]\n  uverbs_free_flow+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs]\n  destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs]\n  uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x34/0x1a0 [ib_uverbs]\n  uobj_destroy+0x3c/0x80 [ib_uverbs]\n  ib_uverbs_run_method+0x23e/0x360 [ib_uverbs]\n  ? uverbs_finalize_object+0x60/0x60 [ib_uverbs]\n  ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x14f/0x2c0 [ib_uverbs]\n  ? do_tty_write+0x1a9/0x270\n  ? file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x98/0xc0\n  ? new_sync_write+0xfc/0x190\n  ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xd7/0x160 [ib_uverbs]\n  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x87/0xc0\n  do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90","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/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release","id":"CVE-2025-39979","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"nexthop: Forbid FDB status change while nexthop is in a group","id":"CVE-2025-39980"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow()","id":"CVE-2025-39978"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-10-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's mlx5 network driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code via crafted flow counter operations.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39979/"}