CVE-2025-21832 — Unchecked Return Value in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.8OSV7.1OSV5.9
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 6
Latest updateSep 3
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: don't revert iter for -EIOCBQUEUED
blkdev_read_iter() has a few odd checks, like gating the position and
count adjustment on whether or not the result is bigger-than-or-equal to
zero (where bigger than makes more sense), and not checking the return
value of blkdev_direct_IO() before doing an iov_iter_revert(). The
latter can lead to attempting to revert with a negative value, which
when passed to iov_iter_revert() as an…
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 Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux3e1f941dd9f33776b3df4e30f741fe445ff773f3 — 6c26619effb1b4cb7d20b4e666ab8f71f6a53ccb+5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
14OSV▶
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