CVE-2025-21919 (GCVE-0-2025-21919)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-01 15:40 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:09
VLAI
Title
sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in child_cfs_rq_on_list
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/fair: Fix potential memory corruption in child_cfs_rq_on_list child_cfs_rq_on_list attempts to convert a 'prev' pointer to a cfs_rq. This 'prev' pointer can originate from struct rq's leaf_cfs_rq_list, making the conversion invalid and potentially leading to memory corruption. Depending on the relative positions of leaf_cfs_rq_list and the task group (tg) pointer within the struct, this can cause a memory fault or access garbage data. The issue arises in list_add_leaf_cfs_rq, where both cfs_rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list and rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list are added to the same leaf list. Also, rq->tmp_alone_branch can be set to rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list. This adds a check `if (prev == &rq->leaf_cfs_rq_list)` after the main conditional in child_cfs_rq_on_list. This ensures that the container_of operation will convert a correct cfs_rq struct. This check is sufficient because only cfs_rqs on the same CPU are added to the list, so verifying the 'prev' pointer against the current rq's list head is enough. Fixes a potential memory corruption issue that due to current struct layout might not be manifesting as a crash but could lead to unpredictable behavior when the layout changes.
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 (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < 5cb300dcdd27e6a351ac02541e0231261c775852 (git)
Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < 000c9ee43928f2ce68a156dd40bab7616256f4dd (git)
Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < 9cc7f0018609f75a349e42e3aebc3b0e905ba775 (git)
Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < b5741e4b9ef3567613b2351384f91d3f16e59986 (git)
Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < e1dd09df30ba86716cb2ffab97dc35195c01eb8f (git)
Affected: fdaba61ef8a268d4136d0a113d153f7a89eb9984 , < 3b4035ddbfc8e4521f85569998a7569668cccf51 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.13 (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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