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Medium 5.5

Vulnerability in Linux kernel

CVE-2025-21925 First seen on SecPulse

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-21925 has been found in Linux kernel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Linux kernel CVE-2025-21925" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2025-21925 (Linux kernel) — CVSS v3 5.5
Attack vector: local / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in Linux kernel.

Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Linux kernel.

Severity

Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

How to fix

Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.

Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposureidentify
    Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.

    資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで Linux kernel を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。

  2. 2
    Post-deployment verificationverify
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
Linux Kernel
≥ 2.6.12, < 5.4.291
≥ 5.5.0, < 5.10.235
≥ 5.11.0, < 5.15.179
≥ 5.16.0, < 6.1.131
≥ 6.2.0, < 6.6.83
≥ 6.7.0, < 6.12.19
+1 more
5.4.291
5.10.235
5.15.179
6.1.131
6.6.83
6.12.19

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Original description The description as published by the source.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

llc: do not use skb_get() before dev_queue_xmit()

syzbot is able to crash hosts [1], using llc and devices
not supporting IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING.

In this case, e1000 driver calls eth_skb_pad(), while
the skb is shared.

Simply replace skb_get() by skb_clone() in net/llc/llc_s_ac.c

Note that e1000 driver might have an issue with pktgen,
because it does not clear IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING, this is an
orthogonal change.

We need to audit other skb_get() uses in net/llc.

[1]

kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16371 Comm: syz.2.2764 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4-syzkaller-00052-gac9c34d1e45a #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:pskb_expand_head+0x6ce/0x1240 net/core/skbuff.c:2178
Call Trace:

__skb_pad+0x18a/0x610 net/core/skbuff.c:2466
__skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3843 [inline]
skb_put_padto include/linux/skbuff.h:3862 [inline]
eth_skb_pad include/linux/etherdevice.h:656 [inline]
e1000_xmit_frame+0x2d99/0x5800 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3128
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5151 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5160 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3806 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x9a/0x7b0 net/core/dev.c:3822
sch_direct_xmit+0x1ae/0xc30 net/sched/sch_generic.c:343
__dev_xmit_skb net/cor…

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

References

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