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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-39773" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-11T16:56:26.820Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:08:16.402Z" 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-2025-39773" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39773.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39773" title: "net: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired()\n\nWhen set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable\n'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller\nthan jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer()\nagain, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup\nissue.\n\n watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66]\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none)\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n __netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0\n br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70\n __br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0\n br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510\n br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0\n call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0\n __run_timers+0x619/0x950\n run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220\n handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560\n __irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nThis issue can be reproduced with:\n ip link add br0 type bridge\n echo 1 \u003e /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier\n echo 0xffffffffffffffff \u003e\n \t/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval\n ip link set dev br0 up\n\nThe multicast_startup_query_interval can also cause this issue. Similar to\nthe commit 99b40610956a (\"net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce query\ninterval minimum\"), add check for the query interval maximum to fix this\nissue." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34171b9e53bd1dc264f5556579f2b04f04435c73"},{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43e281fde5e76a866a4d10780c35023f16c0e432"},{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96476b043efb86a94f2badd260f7f99c97bd5893"},{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bdb19cd0de739870bb3494c815138b9dc30875c4"},{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bf5fce8a0c2a70d063af778fdb5b27238174cdd"},{"version":"d902eee43f1951b358d7347d9165c6af21cf7b1b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1547bf460baec718b3398365f8de33d25c5f36f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.34","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.34"},{"version":"5.15.190","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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