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CVE-2025-21883 (GCVE-0-2025-21883)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-27 14:57 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:08
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Title
ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path If ice_ena_vfs() fails after calling ice_create_vf_entries(), it frees all VFs without removing them from snapshot PF-VF mailbox list, leading to list corruption. Reproducer: devlink dev eswitch set $PF1_PCI mode switchdev ip l s $PF1 up ip l s $PF1 promisc on sleep 1 echo 1 > /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs sleep 1 echo 1 > /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs Trace (minimized): list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff8882e241c6f0), but was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff888455da1330). kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29! RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xa6/0x100 ice_mbx_init_vf_info+0xa7/0x180 [ice] ice_initialize_vf_entry+0x1fa/0x250 [ice] ice_sriov_configure+0x8d7/0x1520 [ice] ? __percpu_ref_switch_mode+0x1b1/0x5d0 ? __pfx_ice_sriov_configure+0x10/0x10 [ice] Sometimes a KASAN report can be seen instead with a similar stack trace: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf1/0x100 VFs are added to this list in ice_mbx_init_vf_info(), but only removed in ice_free_vfs(). Move the removing to ice_free_vf_entries(), which is also being called in other places where VFs are being removed (including ice_free_vfs() itself).
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e , < 3c01102bec9592928e6b155da41cfcd5d25a2066 (git)
Affected: 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e , < a4880583f88deba63504ce1c8287a70d39c01378 (git)
Affected: 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e , < 34393fd78d7183a007eaf0090966ebedcc29bd57 (git)
Affected: 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e , < 79990cf5e7aded76d0c092c9f5ed31eb1c75e02c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.81 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.18 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.6 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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