UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21857
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_api: fix error handling causing NULL dereference tcf_exts_miss_cookie_base_alloc() calls xa_alloc_cyclic() which can return 1 if the allocation succeeded after wrapping. This was treated as an error, with value 1 returned to caller tcf_exts_init_ex() which sets exts->actions to NULL and returns 1 to caller fl_change(). fl_change() treats err == 1 as success, calling tcf_exts_validate_ex() which calls tcf_action_init() with exts->actions as argument, where it is dereferenced. Example trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 114 PID: 16151 Comm: handler114 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 RIP: 0010:tcf_action_init+0x1f8/0x2c0 Call Trace: tcf_action_init+0x1f8/0x2c0 tcf_exts_validate_ex+0x175/0x190 fl_change+0x537/0x1120 [cls_flower]
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_api: fix error handling causing NULL dereference tcf_exts_miss_cookie_base_alloc() calls xa_alloc_cyclic() which can return 1 if the allocation succeeded after wrapping. This was treated as an error, with value 1 returned to caller tcf_exts_init_ex() which sets exts->actions to NULL and returns 1 to caller fl_change(). fl_change() treats err == 1 as success, calling tcf_exts_validate_ex() which calls tcf_action_init() with exts->actions as argument, where it is dereferenced. Example trace: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 CPU: 114 PID: 16151 Comm: handler114 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.14.0-503.16.1.el9_5.x86_64 #1 RIP: 0010:tcf_action_init+0x1f8/0x2c0 Call Trace: tcf_action_init+0x1f8/0x2c0 tcf_exts_validate_ex+0x175/0x190 fl_change+0x537/0x1120 [cls_flower]
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/071ed42cff4fcdd89025d966d48eabef59913bf2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/071ed42cff4fcdd89025d966d48eabef59913bf2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c74b5787caf59bb1e9c5fe0a360643a71eb1e8a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e4c56cf41876ef2a82f0877fe2a67648f8632b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de4b679aa3b4da7ec34f639df068b914f20e3c3c
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-21857
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7521-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7521-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7521-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7703-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7703-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7703-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7703-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7719-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7737-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21857