CVE-2025-39819 Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-14910163
  • published10 Jan 2026
  • disclosed19 Dec 2025

Introduced: 19 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-39819  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

fs/smb: Fix inconsistent refcnt update

A possible inconsistent update of refcount was identified in smb2_compound_op. Such inconsistent update could lead to possible resource leaks.

Why it is a possible bug:

  1. In the comment section of the function, it clearly states that the reference to cfile should be dropped after calling this function.
  2. Every control flow path would check and drop the reference to cfile, except the patched one.
  3. Existing callers would not handle refcount update of cfile if -ENOMEM is returned.

To fix the bug, an extra goto label "out" is added, to make sure that the cleanup logic would always be respected. As the problem is caused by the allocation failure of vars, the cleanup logic between label "finished" and "out" can be safely ignored. According to the definition of function is_replayable_error, the error code of "-ENOMEM" is not recoverable. Therefore, the replay logic also gets ignored.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1