CVE-2025-39748

CVE-2025-39748

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after JSET

Syzbot reported a kernel warning due to a range invariant violation on

the following BPF program.

0: call bpf_get_netns_cookie

1: if r0 == 0 goto <exit>

2: if r0 & Oxffffffff goto <exit>

The issue is on the path where we fall through both jumps.

That path is unreachable at runtime: after insn 1, we know r0 != 0, but

with the sign extension on the jset, we would only fallthrough insn 2

if r0 == 0. Unfortunately, is_branch_taken() isn't currently able to

figure this out, so the verifier walks all branches. The verifier then

refines the register bounds using the second condition and we end

up with inconsistent bounds on this unreachable path:

1: if r0 == 0 goto <exit>

r0: u64=[0x1, 0xffffffffffffffff] var_off=(0, 0xffffffffffffffff)

2: if r0 & 0xffffffff goto <exit>

r0 before reg_bounds_sync: u64=[0x1, 0xffffffffffffffff] var_off=(0, 0)

r0 after reg_bounds_sync: u64=[0x1, 0] var_off=(0, 0)

Improving the range refinement for JSET to cover all cases is tricky. We

also don't expect many users to rely on JSET given LLVM doesn't generate

those instructions. So instead of improving the range refinement for

JSETs, Eduard suggested we forget the ranges whenever we're narrowing

tnums after a JSET. This patch implements that approach.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.5th percentile
Published
2025-09-11T21:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 6.12.436.12.43
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.15.116.15.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.16, < 6.16.26.16.2
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 16:52Z
    bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after JSET
    cvelistv5