U.S. flag   An official website of the United States government
Dot gov

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Https

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

CVE-2025-21871 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop OP-TEE supplicant is a user-space daemon and it's possible for it be hung or crashed or killed in the middle of processing an OP-TEE RPC call. It becomes more complicated when there is incorrect shutdown ordering of the supplicant process vs the OP-TEE client application which can eventually lead to system hang-up waiting for the closure of the client application. Allow the client process waiting in kernel for supplicant response to be killed rather than indefinitely waiting in an unkillable state. Also, a normal uninterruptible wait should not have resulted in the hung-task watchdog getting triggered, but the endless loop would. This fixes issues observed during system reboot/shutdown when supplicant got hung for some reason or gets crashed/killed which lead to client getting hung in an unkillable state. It in turn lead to system being in hung up state requiring hard power off/on to recover.


Metrics

NVD enrichment efforts reference publicly available information to associate vector strings. CVSS information contributed by other sources is also displayed.
CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfca
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21234efe2a8474a6d2d01ea9573319de7858ce44
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ce
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70b0d6b0a199c5a3ee6c72f5e61681ed6f759612
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd9d2d6124c293e40797a080adf8a9c237efd8b8

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source

Change History

1 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-21871
NVD Published Date:
03/27/2025
NVD Last Modified:
03/27/2025
Source:
kernel.org