batman-adv: fix panic during interface removal (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-21781
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.22 % · percentile 13 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

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. [sven@narfation.org: prevent entering batadv_v_elp_get_throughput without soft_iface]

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < 167422a07096a6006599067c8b55884064fa0b72 ; affected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < ce3f1545bf8fa28bd05ec113679e8e6cd23af577 ; affected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < f0a16c6c79768180333f3e41ce63f32730e3c3af ; affected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < 7eb5dd201695645af071592a50026eb780081a72 ; affected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < 072b2787321903287a126c148e8db87dd7ef96fe ; affected c833484e5f3872a38fe232c663586069d5ad9645 < 2c3fb7df4cc6d043f70d4a8a10f8b915bbfb75e7
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.6 ; unaffected 0 < 4.6 ; unaffected 5.4.291 ≤ 5.4.* ; unaffected 5.10.235 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.179 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.129 ≤ 6.1.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD