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
2026-05-15T11:54:30.264554933Z
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

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"