CVE-2025-21704 — Out-of-bounds Write in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 22
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: cdc-acm: Check control transfer buffer size before access
If the first fragment is shorter than struct usb_cdc_notification, we can't
calculate an expected_size. Log an error and discard the notification
instead of reading lengths from memory outside the received data, which can
lead to memory corruption when the expected_size decreases between
fragments, causing `expected_size - acm->nb_index` to wrap.
This issue has be…
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 Packages8 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 — a4e1ae5c0533964170197e4fb4f33bc8c1db5cd2+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
49OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities↗2026-03-20