CVE-2025-21753 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After Free90 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.9OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
6
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+3 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateSep 3

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix use-after-free when attempting to join an aborted transaction When we are trying to join the current transaction and if it's aborted, we read its 'aborted' field after unlocking fs_info->trans_lock and without holding any extra reference count on it. This means that a concurrent task that is aborting the transaction may free the transaction before we read its 'aborted' field, leading to a use-after-free. Fix this b…

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

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel3.4 — 5.4.291+7
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.237-1+3
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.4.0-216.236+2

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

44
OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities↗2025-09-03
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OSV
linux-raspi vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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OSV
linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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OSV
linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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OSV
linux-aws-6.8, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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📋Vendor Advisories

45
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities↗2025-09-03
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-24
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2025-07-22
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