CVE-2025-21979 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After Free42 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV5.9OSV5.5OSV4.7
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateOct 15

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: cfg80211: cancel wiphy_work before freeing wiphy A wiphy_work can be queued from the moment the wiphy is allocated and initialized (i.e. wiphy_new_nm). When a wiphy_work is queued, the rdev::wiphy_work is getting queued. If wiphy_free is called before the rdev::wiphy_work had a chance to run, the wiphy memory will be freed, and then when it eventally gets to run it'll use invalid memory. Fix this by canceling the work …

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 Packages7 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel6.1.57 — 6.1.132+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.133-1+2
▶Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 6.8.0-84.84
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxddb1bfbf4ab5c753954d0cd728253b642934a9f2 — 8930a3e1568cf534f86c8ed2def817c6d0528fc1+6

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

20
OSV
linux-oracle-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-10-15
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OSV
linux-azure-nvidia vulnerabilities↗2025-10-08
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OSV
linux-oracle vulnerabilities↗2025-10-06
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OSV
linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8 vulnerabilities↗2025-10-02
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OSV
linux-raspi-realtime vulnerabilities↗2025-10-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

21
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities↗2025-10-15
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Azure, N-Series) vulnerabilities↗2025-10-08
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities↗2025-10-06
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi Real-time) vulnerabilities↗2025-10-02
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Ubuntu
Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities↗2025-10-02
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