CVE-2025-39963 (GCVE-0-2025-39963)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-09 12:13 – Updated: 2026-10-15 22:02
VLAI
Title
io_uring: fix incorrect io_kiocb reference in io_link_skb
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix incorrect io_kiocb reference in io_link_skb In io_link_skb function, there is a bug where prev_notif is incorrectly assigned using 'nd' instead of 'prev_nd'. This causes the context validation check to compare the current notification with itself instead of comparing it with the previous notification. Fix by using the correct prev_nd parameter when obtaining prev_notif.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:55 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7063 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6fe4220912d19152a26ce19713ab232f4263018d , < a89c34babc2e5834aa0905278f26f4dbe4b26b76 (git)
Affected: 6fe4220912d19152a26ce19713ab232f4263018d , < 50a98ce1ea694f1ff8e87bc2f8f84096d1736f6a (git)
Affected: 6fe4220912d19152a26ce19713ab232f4263018d , < 2c139a47eff8de24e3350dadb4c9d5e3426db826 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.49 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.9 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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