Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 13, 2025
xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI
CVE-2025-39965
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI
x->id.spi == 0 means "no SPI assigned", but since commit 94f39804d891 ("xfrm: Duplicate SPI Handling"), we now create states and add them to the byspi list with this value.
__xfrm_state_delete doesn't remove those states from the byspi list, since they shouldn't be there, and this shows up as a UAF the next time we go through the byspi list.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 6.6.103
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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