CVE-2025-37759 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV3.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 80.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 1
Latest updateMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ublk: fix handling recovery & reissue in ublk_abort_queue()
Commit 8284066946e6 ("ublk: grab request reference when the request is handled
by userspace") doesn't grab request reference in case of recovery reissue.
Then the request can be requeued & re-dispatch & failed when canceling
uring command.
If it is one zc request, the request can be freed before io_uring
returns the zc buffer back, then cause kernel panic:
[ 126.773…
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