PT-2025-8873

CVE-2025-21761

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Published

2025-02-07

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Updated

2026-10-21

Description by

CVSS 3.1
7.8
High
MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
Description A vulnerability in the Linux kernel has been resolved. The issue is related to the openvswitch, specifically the ovs vport cmd fill info() function, which can be called without RTNL or RCU protection. This could lead to a potential use-after-free (UAF) issue. To address this, RCU protection and dev net rcu() are used.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALSA-2025:20095
ALT-PU-2025-12647
ALT-PU-2025-5012
ALT-PU-2025-5359
ALT-PU-2025-5361
ALT-PU-2025-5437
AZL-59058
AZL-59082
CLSA-2025-1746479711
CLSA-2025-1754037492
CLSA-2025-1754037789
CLSA-2026-1781347338
CLSA-2026-1786824415
CLSA-2026-1787571818
CLSA-2026-1787572220
CLSA-2026-1789141176
DLA-4102-1
DLA-4178-1
OESA-2025-1446
OESA-2025-1450
OESA-2025-1462
OESA-2025-1465
OESA-2025-1466
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1177-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1178-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2025_1180-1
RHSA-2025:20095
SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1
SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1
SUSE-SU-2025_01951-1
SUSE-SU-2025:01967-1
SUSE-SU-2025_01967-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1177-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1177-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1178-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1178-1
SUSE-SU-2025:1180-1
SUSE-SU-2025_1180-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20260-1
SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1
USN-7510-1
USN-7510-2
USN-7510-3
USN-7510-4
USN-7510-5
USN-7510-6
USN-7510-7
USN-7510-8
USN-7511-1
USN-7511-2
USN-7511-3
USN-7512-1
USN-7516-1
USN-7516-2
USN-7516-3
USN-7516-4
USN-7516-5
USN-7516-6
USN-7516-7
USN-7516-8
USN-7516-9
USN-7517-1
USN-7517-2
USN-7517-3
USN-7518-1
USN-7521-1
USN-7521-2
USN-7521-3
USN-7539-1
USN-7540-1
USN-7593-1
USN-7602-1
USN-7640-1
USN-7703-1
USN-7703-2
USN-7703-3
USN-7703-4
USN-7719-1
USN-7737-1
USN-7907-1
USN-7907-2
USN-7907-3
USN-7907-4
USN-7907-5
USN-7937-1
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