CVE-2025-39978 Affecting kernel-default-devel package, versions <5.14.21-150500.55.127.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES155-KERNELDEFAULTDEVEL-14192065
  • published5 Dec 2025
  • disclosed4 Dec 2025

Introduced: 4 Dec 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.5 kernel-default-devel to version 5.14.21-150500.55.127.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-devel package and not the kernel-default-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.5 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

octeontx2-pf: Fix potential use after free in otx2_tc_add_flow()

This code calls kfree_rcu(new_node, rcu) and then dereferences "new_node" and then dereferences it on the next line. Two lines later, we take a mutex so I don't think this is an RCU safe region. Re-order it to do the dereferences before queuing up the free.

CVSS Base Scores

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