CVE-2025-21816 — Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime in Linux

CWE-664 — Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime30 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV5.9
EPSS
0.0%
top 91.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+4 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 27
Latest updateSep 3

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hrtimers: Force migrate away hrtimers queued after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING hrtimers are migrated away from the dying CPU to any online target at the CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING stage in order not to delay bandwidth timers handling tasks involved in the CPU hotplug forward progress. However wakeups can still be performed by the outgoing CPU after CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING. Those can result again in bandwidth timers being armed. Depe…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages9 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.19.302 — 4.20+9
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.147-1+2
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-64.67

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

14
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

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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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