CVE-2025-21746Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Linux

Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateSep 3

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Input: synaptics - fix crash when enabling pass-through port When enabling a pass-through port an interrupt might come before psmouse driver binds to the pass-through port. However synaptics sub-driver tries to access psmouse instance presumably associated with the pass-through port to figure out if only 1 byte of response or entire protocol packet needs to be forwarded to the pass-through port and may crash if psmouse instanc

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 Packages5 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.56.6.80+2
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.12.17-1+1
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-78.78
CVEListV5linux/linux100e16959c3ca8cb7be788ed3e2c5867481f35f6a2cbcd70133dc0d4d4c95ad4cd5412b935354c7c+4
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.12.17-1 (forky)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

11
OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities2025-09-03
OSV
linux-gke, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-raspi vulnerabilities2025-08-28
OSV
linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities2025-08-26
OSV
linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities2025-08-21
OSV
linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8 vulnerabilities2025-08-20

📋Vendor Advisories

11
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities2025-09-03
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2025-08-28
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities2025-08-26
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities2025-08-21
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities2025-08-20
CVE-2025-21746 — Linux vulnerability | cvebase