CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2025-21917
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: renesas_usbhs: Flush the notify_hotplug_work
When performing continuous unbind/bind operations on the USB drivers
available on the Renesas RZ/G2L SoC, a kernel crash with the message
"Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address"
may occur. This issue points to the usbhsc_notify_hotplug() function.
Flush the delayed work to avoid its execution when driver resources are
unavailable.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 16% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3248c1f833f924246cb98ce7da4569133c1b2292
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/394965f90454d6f00fe11879142b720c6c1a872e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ca078084cdd5f32d533311d6a0b63a60dcadd41
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cd847a7b630a85493d0294ad9542c21aafaa246
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/552ca6b87e3778f3dd5b87842f95138162e16c82