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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2025-13350 json

Use-after-free of orphaned AF_UNIX in Ubuntu builds of Linux kernel

published 2026-03-05 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-208322

cvss
7.1
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Ubuntu Linux 6.8 GA retains the legacy AF_UNIX garbage collector but backports upstream commit 8594d9b85c07 ("af_unix: Don’t call skb_get() for OOB skb"). When orphaned MSG_OOB sockets hit unix_gc(), the garbage collector still calls kfree_skb() as if OOB SKBs held two references; on Ubuntu Linux 6.8 (Noble Numbat) kernel tree, they have only the queue reference, so the buffer is freed while still reachable and subsequent queue walks dereference freed memory, yielding a reliable local privilege escalation (LPE) caused by a use-after-free (UAF). Ubuntu builds that have already taken the new GC stack from commit 4090fa373f0e, and mainline Linux kernels shipping that infrastructure are unaffected because they no longer execute the legacy collector path. This issue affects Ubuntu Linux from 6.8.0-56.58 before 6.8.0-84.84.

Patch / fix

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux 6.8.0-84.84
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-84.84
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1039.41
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1040.42
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1036.40
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1037.37
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1038.44
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1023.25
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1039.43

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-13350

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CNA 4.0 7.1 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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