CVE-2025-21751
net/mlx5: HWS, change error flow on matcher disconnect
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, change error flow on matcher disconnect Currently, when firmware failure occurs during matcher disconnect flow,
the error flow of the function reconnects the matcher back and returns
an error, which continues running the calling function and eventually
frees the matcher that is being disconnected.
This leads to a case where we have a freed matcher on the matchers list,
which in turn leads to use-after-free and eventual crash. This patch fixes that by not trying to reconnect the matcher back when
some FW command fails during disconnect. Note that we're dealing here with FW error. We can't overcome this
problem. This might lead to bad steering state (e.g. wrong connection
between matchers), and will also lead to resource leakage, as it is
the case with any other error handling during resource destruction. However, the goal here is to allow the driver to continue and not crash
the machine with use-after-free error.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2024-12-29 CVE Reserved
- 2025-02-27 CVE Published
- 2025-02-27 CVE Updated
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- ---------- Exploited in Wild
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
References (2)
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a86c76a1a197e8fbbbd0ce3e826eb58c471624 | 2025-02-17 | |
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce840c7a659aa53a31ef49f0271b4fd0dc10296 | 2025-01-07 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.13.3 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.13.3" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | < 6.14-rc1 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " < 6.14-rc1" | en |
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