CVE-2025-39798: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix the setting of capabilities when automounting a new filesystem Capabilities cannot be inherited when we cross into a new filesystem. They need to be reset to the minimal defaults, and then probed for again.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.19, before 5.4.297 (fixed in 5.4.297); from 5.5, before 5.10.241 (fixed in 5.10.241); from 5.11, before 5.15.190 (fixed in 5.15.190); from 5.16, before 6.1.149 (fixed in 6.1.149); from 6.2, before 6.6.103 (fixed in 6.6.103); from 6.7, before 6.12.43 (fixed in 6.12.43); …

Published 2025-09-12. Last modified 2026-07-30.