CVE-2025-21871

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21871
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21871.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21871
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-03-27T13:38:23.461Z
Modified
2026-05-28T03:55:29.580970639Z
Summary
tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop
Details

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

tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop

OP-TEE supplicant is a user-space daemon and it's possible for it be hung or crashed or killed in the middle of processing an OP-TEE RPC call. It becomes more complicated when there is incorrect shutdown ordering of the supplicant process vs the OP-TEE client application which can eventually lead to system hang-up waiting for the closure of the client application.

Allow the client process waiting in kernel for supplicant response to be killed rather than indefinitely waiting in an unkillable state. Also, a normal uninterruptible wait should not have resulted in the hung-task watchdog getting triggered, but the endless loop would.

This fixes issues observed during system reboot/shutdown when supplicant got hung for some reason or gets crashed/killed which lead to client getting hung in an unkillable state. It in turn lead to system being in hung up state requiring hard power off/on to recover.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21871.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
4fb0a5eb364d239722e745c02aef0dbd4e0f1ad2
Fixed
3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ce
Fixed
0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfca
Fixed
c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6d
Fixed
ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880f
Fixed
d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d
Fixed
fd9d2d6124c293e40797a080adf8a9c237efd8b8
Fixed
21234efe2a8474a6d2d01ea9573319de7858ce44
Fixed
70b0d6b0a199c5a3ee6c72f5e61681ed6f759612

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21871.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.12.0
Fixed
5.4.291
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.235
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.179
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.130
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.80
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.17
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21871.json"