CVE-2025-39926

CVE-2025-39926

Medium · published October 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM

Per family bind/unbind callbacks were introduced to allow families

to track multicast group consumer presence, e.g. to start or stop

producing events depending on listeners.

However, in genl_bind() the bind() callback was invoked even if

capability checks failed and ret was set to -EPERM. This means that

callbacks could run on behalf of unauthorized callers while the

syscall still returned failure to user space.

Fix this by only invoking bind() after "if (ret) break;" check

i.e. after permission checks have succeeded.

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
0.00148 · 3.7th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T12:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.9, < 6.12.486.12.48
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.16.86.16.8
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 08:07Z
    genetlink: fix genl_bind() invoking bind() after -EPERM
    cvelistv5