CVE-2025-21934 (GCVE-0-2025-21934)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-01 15:41 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:55
VLAI
Title
rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails rio_add_net() calls device_register() and fails when device_register() fails. Thus, put_device() should be used rather than kfree(). Add "mport->net = NULL;" to avoid a use after free issue.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:22 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < d4ec862ce80f64db923a1d942b5d11cf6fc87d36 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < 88ddad53e4cfb6de861c6d4fb7b25427f46baed5 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < cdd9f58f7fe41a55fae4305ea51fc234769fd466 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < a5f5e520e8fbc6294020ff8afa36f684d92c6e6a (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < 2537f01d57f08c527e40bbb5862aa6ff43344898 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < 22e4977141dfc6d109bf29b495bf2187b4250990 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < f0aa4ee1cbbf7789907e5a3f6810de01c146c211 (git)
Affected: e8de370188d098bb49483c287b44925957c3c9b6 , < b2ef51c74b0171fde7eb69b6152d3d2f743ef269 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.291 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.235 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.179 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.131 , ≤ 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)
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.