CVE-2025-21718
CVE-2025-21718CVE-2025-21718
linux / linux_kernel
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_timer
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.0 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-14 |