{"cve":"CVE-2025-21718","nvd":{"published":"2025-02-27T02:15:15.473","modified":"2026-10-15T02:17:29.733","status":"Modified","description":"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 <IRQ>\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 </IRQ>","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.0},"cwes":["CWE-362","CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d5bca3be27bfcf8f980f2fed49b6cbb7dafe4a1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1409b45d4690308c502c6caf22f01c3c205b4717","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1992fb261c90e9827cf5dc3115d89bb0853252c9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c128ba038cf1b79d605cbee325919b45ab95a5","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52f5aff33ca73b2c2fa93f40a3de308012e63cf4"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:59:48.811064707+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-21718","score":0.00171,"percentile":0.06474,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}