CVE-2025-21998
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21998
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-21998.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-21998
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-04-03T07:19:02.272Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-15T11:53:32.092831227Z
- Severity
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- 4.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race
- Details
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race
Since the conversion to using the TZ allocator, the efivars service is registered before the memory pool has been allocated, something which can lead to a NULL-pointer dereference in case of a racing EFI variable access.
Make sure that all resources have been set up before registering the efivars.
- Database specific
{ "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21998.json", "cna_assigner": "Linux" }- References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4e37b381a7a243c298a4858fc0a5a74e737c79a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8d493a80993972c427002684d0742560f3be4a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f15a2b96a0e41c426c63a932d0e63cde7b9784aa
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/21xxx/CVE-2025-21998.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21998
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git