{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21644 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21644 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21644 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21644 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jan 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21644 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21644/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21644/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21644","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21644/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21644","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-21644","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21644","GHSA-9hxc-crm7-5f87","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21644"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Intel Xe GPU driver causes a kernel crash when the GuC firmware fails to load, leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"null_dereference"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/xe: Fix tlb invalidation when wedging\n\nIf GuC fails to load, the driver wedges, but in the process it tries to\ndo stuff that may not be initialized yet. This moves the\nxe_gt_tlb_invalidation_init() to be done earlier: as its own doc says,\nit's a software-only initialization and should had been named with the\n_early() suffix.\n\nMove it to be called by xe_gt_init_early(), so the locks and seqno are\ninitialized, avoiding a NULL ptr deref when wedging:\n\n\txe 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* GT0: load failed: status: Reset = 0, BootROM = 0x50, UKernel = 0x00, MIA = 0x00, Auth = 0x01\n\txe 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* GT0: firmware signature verification failed\n\txe 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* CRITICAL: Xe has declared device 0000:03:00.0 as wedged.\n\t...\n\tBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\n\t#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n\t#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\n\tPGD 0 P4D 0\n\tOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n\tCPU: 9 UID: 0 PID: 3908 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G     U  W          6.13.0-rc4-xe+ #3\n\tTainted: [U]=USER, [W]=WARN\n\tHardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform/AlderLake-S ADP-S DDR5 UDIMM CRB, BIOS ADLSFWI1.R00.3275.A00.2207010640 07/01/2022\n\tRIP: 0010:xe_gt_tlb_invalidation_reset+0x75/0x110 [xe]\n\nThis can be easily triggered by poking the GuC binary to force a\nsignature failure. There will still be an extra message,\n\n\txe 0000:03:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* GT0: GuC mmio request 0x4100: no reply 0x4100\n\nbut that's better than a NULL ptr deref.\n\n(cherry picked from commit 5001ef3af8f2c972d6fd9c5221a8457556f8bea6)","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"drm/xe: Fix tlb invalidation when wedging","id":"CVE-2025-21644","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"null_dereference","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"platform/x86/amd/pmc: Only disable IRQ1 wakeup where i8042 actually enabled it","id":"CVE-2025-21645"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"netfs: Fix kernel async DIO","id":"CVE-2025-21643"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-01-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the Intel Xe GPU driver causes a kernel crash when the GuC firmware fails to load, leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21644/"}