CVE-2025-21976

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21976
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21976.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21976
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-04-01T15:47:07.120Z
Modified
2025-11-28T02:35:39.733621Z
Summary
fbdev: hyperv_fb: Allow graceful removal of framebuffer
Details

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

fbdev: hyperv_fb: Allow graceful removal of framebuffer

When a Hyper-V framebuffer device is unbind, hyperv_fb driver tries to release the framebuffer forcefully. If this framebuffer is in use it produce the following WARN and hence this framebuffer is never released.

[ 44.111220] WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 1882 at drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbinfo.c:70 framebufferrelease+0x2c/0x40 < snip > [ 44.111289] Call Trace: [ 44.111290] <TASK> [ 44.111291] ? showregs+0x6c/0x80 [ 44.111295] ? _warn+0x8d/0x150 [ 44.111298] ? framebufferrelease+0x2c/0x40 [ 44.111300] ? reportbug+0x182/0x1b0 [ 44.111303] ? handlebug+0x6e/0xb0 [ 44.111306] ? excinvalidop+0x18/0x80 [ 44.111308] ? asmexcinvalidop+0x1b/0x20 [ 44.111311] ? framebufferrelease+0x2c/0x40 [ 44.111313] ? hvfbremove+0x86/0xa0 [hypervfb] [ 44.111315] vmbusremove+0x24/0x40 [hvvmbus] [ 44.111323] deviceremove+0x40/0x80 [ 44.111325] devicereleasedriverinternal+0x20b/0x270 [ 44.111327] ? busfind_device+0xb3/0xf0

Fix this by moving the release of framebuffer and assosiated memory to fbops.fbdestroy function, so that framebuffer framework handles it gracefully.

While we fix this, also replace manual registrations/unregistration of framebuffer with devmregisterframebuffer.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21976.json"
}
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
68a2d20b79b105f02dcbc52c211d7e62f98996b7
Fixed
4545e2aa121aea304d33903099c03e29ed4fe50a
Fixed
a7b583dc99c6cf4a96877017be1d08247e1ef2c7
Fixed
ea2f45ab0e53b255f72c85ccd99e2b394fc5fceb

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.10.0
Fixed
6.12.20
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.13.8