CVE-2025-21647 — Out-of-bounds Read in Linux
Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8OSV6.2OSV5.9OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 19
Latest updateJan 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched: sch_cake: add bounds checks to host bulk flow fairness counts
Even though we fixed a logic error in the commit cited below, syzbot
still managed to trigger an underflow of the per-host bulk flow
counters, leading to an out of bounds memory access.
To avoid any such logic errors causing out of bounds memory accesses,
this commit factors out all accesses to the per-host bulk flow counters
to a series of helpers that perf…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4a4eeefa514db570be025ab46d779af180e2c9bb — 44fe1efb4961c1a5ccab16bb579dfc6b308ad58b+8