{"cve":"CVE-2025-21739","nvd":{"published":"2025-02-27T03:15:14.530","modified":"2026-06-17T08:44:09.783","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths\n\ndevm_blk_crypto_profile_init() registers a cleanup handler to run when\nthe associated (platform-) device is being released. For UFS, the\ncrypto private data and pointers are stored as part of the ufs_hba's\ndata structure 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This structure is\nallocated as part of the underlying ufshcd and therefore Scsi_host\nallocation.\n\nDuring driver release or during error handling in ufshcd_pltfrm_init(),\nthis structure is released as part of ufshcd_dealloc_host() before the\n(platform-) device associated with the crypto call above is released.\nOnce this device is released, the crypto cleanup code will run, using\nthe just-released 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This causes a\nuse-after-free situation:\n\n  Call trace:\n   kfree+0x60/0x2d8 (P)\n   kvfree+0x44/0x60\n   blk_crypto_profile_destroy_callback+0x28/0x70\n   devm_action_release+0x1c/0x30\n   release_nodes+0x6c/0x108\n   devres_release_all+0x98/0x100\n   device_unbind_cleanup+0x20/0x70\n   really_probe+0x218/0x2d0\n\nIn other words, the initialisation code flow is:\n\n  platform-device probe\n    ufshcd_pltfrm_init()\n      ufshcd_alloc_host()\n        scsi_host_alloc()\n          allocation of struct ufs_hba\n          creation of scsi-host devices\n    devm_blk_crypto_profile_init()\n      devm registration of cleanup handler using platform-device\n\nand during error handling of ufshcd_pltfrm_init() or during driver\nremoval:\n\n  ufshcd_dealloc_host()\n    scsi_host_put()\n      put_device(scsi-host)\n        release of struct ufs_hba\n  put_device(platform-device)\n    crypto cleanup handler\n\nTo fix this use-after free, change ufshcd_alloc_host() to register a\ndevres action to automatically cleanup the underlying SCSI device on\nufshcd destruction, without requiring explicit calls to\nufshcd_dealloc_host(). This way:\n\n    * the crypto profile and all other ufs_hba-owned resources are\n      destroyed before SCSI (as they've been registered after)\n    * a memleak is plugged in tc-dwc-g210-pci.c remove() as a\n      side-effect\n    * EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ufshcd_dealloc_host) can be removed fully as\n      it's not needed anymore\n    * no future drivers using ufshcd_alloc_host() could ever forget\n      adding the cleanup","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a6895c03b1f439236e2d22b1a69ebfc1eb9d5ea","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c77c0d754fe83cb154715fcfec6c3faef94f207","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dc539b888fb5f56b6eeddd95433eab557d4b0c1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c185beae09a3eb85f54777edafa227f7e03075d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d06eb2620d3bf16056b8b7ea3744dbb5e30512f4"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:59:48.811064707+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-21739","score":0.00223,"percentile":0.12936,"date":"2026-10-31"},"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."]}