CVE-2025-21718

net: rose: fix timer races against user threads

HIGH
7
CVSS Score
Published: February 27, 2025 at 02:07 AM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 02:17 AM UTC
4 products affected across 2 vendorsLinux KernelSIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 Pn /dp MFP FirmwareSiplus S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 Pn /dp MFP Firmware

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Severity
HIGH7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline] __run_timer_base+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2430 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline] run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2449 handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline] invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline] __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 </IRQ>

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.12 ≤ v < 6.1.1296.13 ≤ v < 6.13.26.2 ≤ v < 6.6.766.7 ≤ v < 6.12.131da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac22.6.12
Vendor states this is fixed in 0d5bca3be27bfcf8f980f2fed49b6cbb7dafe4a1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1409b45d4690308c502c6caf22f01c3c205b4717 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1992fb261c90e9827cf5dc3115d89bb0853252c9 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 51c128ba038cf1b79d605cbee325919b45ab95a5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 52f5aff33ca73b2c2fa93f40a3de308012e63cf4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 58051a284ac18a3bb815aac6289a679903ddcc3f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5de7665e0a0746b5ad7943554b34db8f8614a196 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f55c88e3ca5939a6a8a329024aed8f3d98eea8e4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.235 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.179 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.291 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.129 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.13.2 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.76 (unaffected)

References (12)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362CWE-416

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