CVE-2025-21655 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV6.2OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 20
Latest updateMay 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/eventfd: ensure io_eventfd_signal() defers another RCU period
io_eventfd_do_signal() is invoked from an RCU callback, but when
dropping the reference to the io_ev_fd, it calls io_eventfd_free()
directly if the refcount drops to zero. This isn't correct, as any
potential freeing of the io_ev_fd should be deferred another RCU grace
period.
Just call io_eventfd_put() rather than open-code the dec-and-test and
free, whic…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux21a091b970cdbcf3e8ff829234b51be6f9192766 — 6b63308c28987c6010b1180c72a6db4df6c68033+4