CVE-2025-39764 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2025-39764

netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that as the skip hint for dump resumption. AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack dumper, when we do if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use)) to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
cf6994c2b9812a9f02b99e89df411ffc5db9c779, 2.6.23, 0, 5.10.253, 5.15.203, 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.16.2, 6.17

Timeline

Official Publish: September 11th, 2025
Last Modified: July 14th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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