vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-21781: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Mar 17, 2025
Modified
Oct 24, 2025

Description

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

batman-adv: fix panic during interface removal

Reference counting is used to ensure that
batadv_hardif_neigh_node and batadv_hard_iface
are not freed before/during
batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update work is
finished.

But there isn't a guarantee that the hard if will
remain associated with a soft interface up until
the work is finished.

This fixes a crash triggered by reboot that looks
like this:

Call trace:
batadv_v_mesh_free+0xd0/0x4dc [batman_adv]
batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update+0x1c/0xa4
process_one_work+0x178/0x398
worker_thread+0x2e8/0x4d0
kthread+0xd8/0xdc
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

(the batadv_v_mesh_free call is misleading,
and does not actually happen)

I was able to make the issue happen more reliably
by changing hardif_neigh->bat_v.metric_work work
to be delayed work. This allowed me to track down
and confirm the fix.

[[email protected]: prevent entering batadv_v_elp_get_throughput without
soft_iface]

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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