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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-21940 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Fix NULL Pointer Dereference in KFD queue Through KFD IOCTL Fuzzing we encountered a NULL pointer derefrence when calling kfd_queue_acquire_buffers. (cherry picked from commit 049e5bf3c8406f87c3d8e1958e0a16804fa1d530)


Metrics

 
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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  5.5 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33eb8041c5d6c19d46e7bfd23a031844336afd80 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3cbeafb4e0001d9146df50b470885e02664f3c7 Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd617ea3b79d2116d53f76cdb5a3601c0ba6e42f Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s) 		From (including)
6.12		Up to (excluding)
6.12.19
 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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6.13		Up to (excluding)
6.13.7
 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
   Show Matching CPE(s)
 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
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 cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-21940
NVD Published Date:
04/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
kernel.org