CVE-2025-21631 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.1OSV6.2OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 19
Latest updateMay 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block, bfq: fix waker_bfqq UAF after bfq_split_bfqq()
Our syzkaller report a following UAF for v6.6:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bfq_init_rq+0x175d/0x17a0 block/bfq-iosched.c:6958
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881b57147d8 by task fsstress/232726
CPU: 2 PID: 232726 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.6.0-g3629d1885222 #39
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x91/0xf0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux63a07379fdb6c72450cb05294461c6016b8b7726 — f587c1ac68956c4703857d650d9b1cd7bb2ac4d7+7