Improper Locking Affecting kernel-debug-uki-virt package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELDEBUGUKIVIRT-8851946
  • published28 Feb 2025
  • disclosed31 Jan 2025

Introduced: 31 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2025-21672  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-667  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-debug-uki-virt.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-uki-virt package and not the kernel-debug-uki-virt package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition

syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1]. This is because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held inode lock is not released.

Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of returning directly.

[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code from afs_split_string()]

[1] WARNING: lock held when returning to user space! 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted

syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! 1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823: #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline] #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388

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