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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21980

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 4/01/2025 12:15:29 PM

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Added Description

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

sched: address a potential NULL pointer dereference in the GRED scheduler.

If kzalloc in gred_init returns a NULL pointer, the code follows the
error handling path, invoking gred_destroy. This, in turn, calls
gred_offload, where memset could receive a NULL pointer as input,
potentially leading to a kernel crash.

When table->opt is NULL in gred_init(), gred_change_table_def()
is not called yet, so it is not necessary to call ->ndo_setup_tc()
in gred_offload().
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f0a152957d64ce45b4c27c687e7d087e8f45079
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/115ef44a98220fddfab37a39a19370497cd718b9
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f996b4f80c2cef1f9c77275055e7fcba44c9199
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68896dd50180b38ea552e49a6a00b685321e5769
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d02c9acd68950a444acda18d514e2b41f846cb7f