CVE-2025-21918 (GCVE-0-2025-21918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-01 15:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
usb: typec: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer access
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: typec: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer access
Resources should be released only after all threads that utilize them
have been destroyed.
This commit ensures that resources are not released prematurely by waiting
for the associated workqueue to complete before deallocating them.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a , < 7a735a8a46f6ebf898bbefd96659ca5da798bce0
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Affected: b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a , < 46fba7be161bb89068958138ea64ec33c0b446d4 (git) Affected: b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a , < 079a3e52f3e751bb8f5937195bdf25c5d14fdff0 (git) Affected: b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a , < 592a0327d026a122e97e8e8bb7c60cbbe7697344 (git) Affected: b9aa02ca39a49740926c2c450a1505a4a0f8954a , < b13abcb7ddd8d38de769486db5bd917537b32ab1 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.133 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.83 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.19 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.13.7 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Nomenclature
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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