Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 9, 2025
rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
CVE-2025-39962
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
Fix the following Smatch static checker warning:
net/rxrpc/rxgk_app.c:65 rxgk_yfs_decode_ticket() warn: untrusted unsigned subtract. 'ticket_len - 10 * 4'
by prechecking the length of what we're trying to extract in two places in the token and decoding for a response packet.
Also use sizeof() on the struct we're extracting rather specifying the size numerically to be consistent with the other related statements.
Affected products
1- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.16
Patches
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