# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39718"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:21:25.959Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:30.928Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39718"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39718.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39718"
title: "vsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock/virtio: Validate length in packet header before skb_put()\n\nWhen receiving a vsock packet in the guest, only the virtqueue buffer\nsize is validated prior to virtio_vsock_skb_rx_put(). Unfortunately,\nvirtio_vsock_skb_rx_put() uses the length from the packet header as the\nlength argument to skb_put(), potentially resulting in SKB overflow if\nthe host has gone wonky.\n\nValidate the length as advertised by the packet header before calling\nvirtio_vsock_skb_rx_put()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"baddcc2c71572968cdaeee1c4ab3dc0ad90fa765","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"969b06bd8b7560efb100a34227619e7d318fbe05"},{"version":"71dc9ec9ac7d3eee785cdc986c3daeb821381e20","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee438c492b2e0705d819ac0e25d04fae758d8f8f"},{"version":"71dc9ec9ac7d3eee785cdc986c3daeb821381e20","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"faf332a10372390ce65d0b803888f4b25a388335"},{"version":"71dc9ec9ac7d3eee785cdc986c3daeb821381e20","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"676f03760ca1d69c2470cef36c44dc152494b47c"},{"version":"71dc9ec9ac7d3eee785cdc986c3daeb821381e20","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dab92484474587b82e8e0455839eaf5ac7bf894"},{"version":"6.1.63","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.149"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.1.149","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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