CVE-2025-21718
March 7, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
7.0
Medium
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: rose: fix timer races against user threads
Rose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without
checking if the socket is owned by one user thread.
Add a check and rearm the timers if needed.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88802f09b82a by task swapper/0/0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-syzkaller-00172-gd1bf27c4e176 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174
call_timer_fn+0x187/0x650 kernel/time/timer.c:1793
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline]
__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline]
__run_timer_base+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2430
run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline]
run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2449
handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
</IRQ>
Product(s) Impacted
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux |
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Weaknesses
Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.
CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
*CPE(s)
Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language | Software Edition | Target Software | Target Hardware | Other Information |
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| o | linux | linux_kernel | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| o | linux | linux_kernel | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| o | linux | linux_kernel | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| o | linux | linux_kernel | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
References
Tags
CVSS Score
CVSS Data - 3.1
- Attack Vector: LOCAL
- Attack Complexity: HIGH
- Privileges Required: LOW
- Scope: UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
- Integrity Impact: HIGH
- Availability Impact: HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Timeline
Published: Feb. 27, 2025, 2:15 a.m.
Last Modified: March 7, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
Last Modified: March 7, 2025, 12:31 p.m.
Status : Analyzed
CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
More infoSource
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