{"id":"AZL-57988","summary":"CVE-2025-21718 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.179.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: rose: fix timer races against user threads\n\nRose timers only acquire the socket spinlock, without\nchecking if the socket is owned by one user thread.\n\nAdd a check and rearm the timers if needed.\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174\nRead of size 2 at addr ffff88802f09b82a by task swapper/0/0\n\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc5-syzkaller-00172-gd1bf27c4e176 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024\nCall Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]\n  dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120\n  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]\n  print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489\n  kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602\n  rose_timer_expiry+0x31d/0x360 net/rose/rose_timer.c:174\n  call_timer_fn+0x187/0x650 kernel/time/timer.c:1793\n  expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1844 [inline]\n  __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2418 [inline]\n  __run_timer_base+0x66a/0x8e0 kernel/time/timer.c:2430\n  run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2439 [inline]\n  run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2449\n  handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561\n  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]\n  invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]\n  __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662\n  irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678\n  instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]\n  sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e","modified":"2026-04-01T05:19:15.391656Z","published":"2025-02-27T02:15:15Z","upstream":["CVE-2025-21718"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21718"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.179.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-57988.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}