CVE-2025-39962 (GCVE-0-2025-39962)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-09 12:13 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:06
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Title
rxrpc: Fix untrusted unsigned subtract
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a , < 71571e187106631a8127f2dde780f35caa358d33 (git)
Affected: 9d1d2b59341f58126a69b51f9f5f8ccb9f12e54a , < 2429a197648178cd4dc930a9d87c13c547460564 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.16.9 , ≤ 6.16.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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