CVE-2025-21857

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21857
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21857.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21857
Related
Published
2025-03-12T10:15:18Z
Modified
2025-03-13T22:47:34.093510Z
Downstream
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

net/sched: cls_api: fix error handling causing NULL dereference

tcfextsmisscookiebasealloc() calls xaalloccyclic() which can return 1 if the allocation succeeded after wrapping. This was treated as an error, with value 1 returned to caller tcfextsinitex() which sets exts->actions to NULL and returns 1 to caller fl_change().

flchange() treats err == 1 as success, calling tcfextsvalidateex() which calls tcfactioninit() with exts->actions as argument, where it is dereferenced.

Example trace:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 114 PID: 16151 Comm: handler114 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-503.16.1.el95.x8664 #1 RIP: 0010:tcfactioninit+0x1f8/0x2c0 Call Trace: tcfactioninit+0x1f8/0x2c0 tcfextsvalidateex+0x175/0x190 flchange+0x537/0x1120 [cls_flower]

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.12.17-1

Affected versions

6.*

6.1.27-1
6.1.37-1
6.1.38-1
6.1.38-2~bpo11+1
6.1.38-2
6.1.38-3
6.1.38-4~bpo11+1
6.1.38-4
6.1.52-1
6.1.55-1~bpo11+1
6.1.55-1
6.1.64-1
6.1.66-1
6.1.67-1
6.1.69-1~bpo11+1
6.1.69-1
6.1.76-1~bpo11+1
6.1.76-1
6.1.82-1
6.1.85-1
6.1.90-1~bpo11+1
6.1.90-1
6.1.94-1~bpo11+1
6.1.94-1
6.1.98-1
6.1.99-1
6.1.106-1
6.1.106-2
6.1.106-3
6.1.112-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.1.123-1
6.1.124-1
6.1.128-1
6.1.129-1
6.3.1-1~exp1
6.3.2-1~exp1
6.3.4-1~exp1
6.3.5-1~exp1
6.3.7-1~bpo12+1
6.3.7-1
6.3.11-1
6.4~rc6-1~exp1
6.4~rc7-1~exp1
6.4.1-1~exp1
6.4.4-1~bpo12+1
6.4.4-1
6.4.4-2
6.4.4-3~bpo12+1
6.4.4-3
6.4.11-1
6.4.13-1
6.5~rc4-1~exp1
6.5~rc6-1~exp1
6.5~rc7-1~exp1
6.5.1-1~exp1
6.5.3-1~bpo12+1
6.5.3-1
6.5.6-1
6.5.8-1
6.5.10-1~bpo12+1
6.5.10-1
6.5.13-1
6.6.3-1~exp1
6.6.4-1~exp1
6.6.7-1~exp1
6.6.8-1
6.6.9-1
6.6.11-1
6.6.13-1~bpo12+1
6.6.13-1
6.6.15-1
6.6.15-2
6.7-1~exp1
6.7.1-1~exp1
6.7.4-1~exp1
6.7.7-1
6.7.9-1
6.7.9-2
6.7.12-1~bpo12+1
6.7.12-1
6.8.9-1
6.8.11-1
6.8.12-1~bpo12+1
6.8.12-1
6.9.2-1~exp1
6.9.7-1~bpo12+1
6.9.7-1
6.9.8-1
6.9.9-1
6.9.10-1~bpo12+1
6.9.10-1
6.9.11-1
6.9.12-1
6.10-1~exp1
6.10.1-1~exp1
6.10.3-1
6.10.4-1
6.10.6-1~bpo12+1
6.10.6-1
6.10.7-1
6.10.9-1
6.10.11-1~bpo12+1
6.10.11-1
6.10.12-1
6.11~rc4-1~exp1
6.11~rc5-1~exp1
6.11-1~exp1
6.11.2-1
6.11.4-1
6.11.5-1~bpo12+1
6.11.5-1
6.11.6-1
6.11.7-1
6.11.9-1
6.11.10-1~bpo12+1
6.11.10-1
6.12~rc6-1~exp1
6.12.3-1
6.12.5-1
6.12.6-1
6.12.8-1
6.12.9-1~bpo12+1
6.12.9-1
6.12.9-1+alpha
6.12.10-1
6.12.11-1
6.12.11-1+alpha
6.12.11-1+alpha.1
6.12.12-1~bpo12+1
6.12.12-1
6.12.13-1
6.12.15-1
6.12.16-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}