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CVE-2025-39978 (GCVE-0-2025-39978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-15 07:55 – Updated: 2026-09-08 08:42
VLAI
Title
octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow() This code calls kfree_rcu(new_node, rcu) and then dereferences "new_node" and then dereferences it on the next line. Two lines later, we take a mutex so I don't think this is an RCU safe region. Re-order it to do the dereferences before queuing up the free.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 68fbff68dbea35f9e6f7649dd22fce492a5aedac , < 5723120423a753a220b8b2954b273838b9d7e74a (git)
Affected: 68fbff68dbea35f9e6f7649dd22fce492a5aedac , < df2c071061ed52d2225d97b212d27ecedf456b8a (git)
Affected: 68fbff68dbea35f9e6f7649dd22fce492a5aedac , < c41b2941a024d4ec7c768e16ffb10a74b188fced (git)
Affected: 68fbff68dbea35f9e6f7649dd22fce492a5aedac , < a8a63f27c3a8a3714210d32b12fd0f16d0337414 (git)
Affected: 68fbff68dbea35f9e6f7649dd22fce492a5aedac , < d9c70e93ec5988ab07ad2a92d9f9d12867f02c56 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.155 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.109 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.50 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.10 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.6 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.6 , < * (custom)
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Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP Affected: V3.1.6 , < * (custom)
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