CVE-2025-21718

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21718
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21718.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21718
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-02-27T02:07:27.971Z
Modified
2026-03-20T12:41:07.487318Z
Summary
net: rose: fix timer races against user threads
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without checking if the socket is owned by one user thread.

Add a check and rearm the timers if needed.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rosetimerexpiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174 Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802f09b82a by task swapper/0/0

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-syzkaller-00172-gd1bf27c4e176 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024 Call Trace: <IRQ> __dumpstack lib/dumpstack.c:94 [inline] dump_stacklvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dumpstack.c:120 printaddressdescription mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] printreport+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489 kasanreport+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602 rosetimerexpiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rosetimer.c:174 calltimerfn+0x187/0x650 kernel/time/timer.c:1793 expiretimers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline] __runtimerbase+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2430 runtimerbase kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline] run_timersoftirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2449 handlesoftirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561 __dosoftirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline] invokesoftirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline] _irqexitrcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662 irqexitrcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678 instrsysvecapictimerinterrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline] sysvecapictimerinterrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 </IRQ>

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21718.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
52f5aff33ca73b2c2fa93f40a3de308012e63cf4
Fixed
0d5bca3be27bfcf8f980f2fed49b6cbb7dafe4a1
Fixed
1409b45d4690308c502c6caf22f01c3c205b4717
Fixed
f55c88e3ca5939a6a8a329024aed8f3d98eea8e4
Fixed
51c128ba038cf1b79d605cbee325919b45ab95a5
Fixed
1992fb261c90e9827cf5dc3115d89bb0853252c9
Fixed
58051a284ac18a3bb815aac6289a679903ddcc3f
Fixed
5de7665e0a0746b5ad7943554b34db8f8614a196

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21718.json"