# 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-2025-39965"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-13T13:48:31.033Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:34.319Z"
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-2025-39965"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39965.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39965"
title: "xfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: xfrm_alloc_spi shouldn't use 0 as SPI\n\nx-\u003eid.spi == 0 means \"no SPI assigned\", but since commit\n94f39804d891 (\"xfrm: Duplicate SPI Handling\"), we now create states\nand add them to the byspi list with this value.\n\n__xfrm_state_delete doesn't remove those states from the byspi list,\nsince they shouldn't be there, and this shows up as a UAF the next\ntime we go through the byspi list."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3d8090bb53424432fa788fe9a49e8ceca74f0544","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0baf92d0b1590b903c1f4ead75e61715e50e8146"},{"version":"2fc5b54368a1bf1d2d74b4d3b8eea5309a653e38","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9fcedabaae0096f712bbb4ccca6a8538af1cd1c8"},{"version":"29e9158f91f99057dbd35db5e8674d93b38549fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a78e55776522373c446f18d5002a8de4b09e6bf7"},{"version":"94f39804d891cffe4ce17737d295f3b195bc7299","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd8ae32e4e4652db55bce6b9c79267d8946765a9"},{"version":"c67d4e7a8f90fb6361ca89d4d5c9a28f4e935e47","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.15.11","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6.103","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.109"},{"version":"6.12.43","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.50"},{"version":"6.16.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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