CVE-2025-39827

net: rose: include node references in rose_neigh refcount

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: rose: include node references in rose_neigh refcount

Current implementation maintains two separate reference counting mechanisms: the 'count' field in struct rose_neigh tracks references from rose_node structures, while the 'use' field (now refcount_t) tracks references from rose_sock.

This patch merges these two reference counting systems using 'use' field for proper reference management. Specifically, this patch adds incrementing and decrementing of rose_neigh->use when rose_neigh->count is incremented or decremented.

This patch also modifies rose_rt_free(), rose_rt_device_down() and rose_clear_route() to properly release references to rose_neigh objects before freeing a rose_node through rose_remove_node().

These changes ensure rose_neigh structures are properly freed only when all references, including those from rose_node structures, are released. As a result, this resolves a slab-use-after-free issue reported by Syzbot.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 4cce478c3e82a5fc788d72adb2f4c4e983997639Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 9c547c8eee9d1cf6e744611d688b9f725cf9a115Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d7563b456ed44151e1a82091d96f60166daea89bAffected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 384210cceb1873a4c8218b27ba0745444436b728Affected
  • 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before da9c9c877597170b929a6121a68dcd3dd9a80f45Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.12Affected
  • before 2.6.12Not affected
  • 6.1.150 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.104 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.45 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.5 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

References

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