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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Mar 12, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 13, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order

Syzkaller reports the following bug:

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, syz-executor.0/7995
lock: 0xffff88805303f3e0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: /-1, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 1 PID: 7995 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G E 5.10.209+ #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x119/0x179 lib/dump_stack.c:118
debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:83 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f6/0x270 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
reset_per_cpu_data+0xe6/0x240 [drop_monitor]
net_dm_cmd_trace+0x43d/0x17a0 [drop_monitor]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2497
genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
netlink_sendmsg+0x914/0xe00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1916
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:663
____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2378
___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2432
__sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2461
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0xc7
RIP: 0033:0x7f3f9815aee9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f3f972bf0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3f9826d050 RCX: 00007f3f9815aee9
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020001300 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f3f981b63bd R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007f3f9826d050 R15: 00007ffe01ee6768

If drop_monitor is built as a kernel module, syzkaller may have time
to send a netlink NET_DM_CMD_START message during the module loading.
This will call the net_dm_monitor_start() function that uses
a spinlock that has not yet been initialized.

To fix this, let's place resource initialization above the registration
of a generic netlink family.

Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 12, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 12, 2025
Last updated Mar 13, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(2nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2025-21862

GHSA ID

GHSA-fm6j-mfpf-prfq

Source code

No known source code

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