{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21662 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21662 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 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-2025-21662 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21662 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 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-2025-21662 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-2025-21662/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21662/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21662","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21662/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21662","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-21662","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21662","GHSA-2ww6-2gwx-v942","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21662"],"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 bug in the mlx5 network driver causes kernel tasks to hang indefinitely when command allocation fails, leading to a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns\n\nWhen cmd_alloc_index(), fails cmd_work_handler() needs\nto complete ent-\u003eslotted before returning early.\nOtherwise the task which issued the command may hang:\n\n   mlx5_core 0000:01:00.0: cmd_work_handler:877:(pid 3880418): failed to allocate command entry\n   INFO: task kworker/13:2:4055883 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n         Not tainted 4.19.90-25.44.v2101.ky10.aarch64 #1\n   \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n   kworker/13:2    D    0 4055883      2 0x00000228\n   Workqueue: events mlx5e_tx_dim_work [mlx5_core]\n   Call trace:\n      __switch_to+0xe8/0x150\n      __schedule+0x2a8/0x9b8\n      schedule+0x2c/0x88\n      schedule_timeout+0x204/0x478\n      wait_for_common+0x154/0x250\n      wait_for_completion+0x28/0x38\n      cmd_exec+0x7a0/0xa00 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_cmd_exec+0x54/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq_moderation+0xa0/0xb8 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5e_tx_dim_work+0x54/0x68 [mlx5_core]\n      process_one_work+0x1b0/0x448\n      worker_thread+0x54/0x468\n      kthread+0x134/0x138\n      ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18","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":"net/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns","id":"CVE-2025-21662","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"net: stmmac: dwmac-tegra: Read iommu stream id from device tree","id":"CVE-2025-21663"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"gpio: virtuser: fix missing lookup table cleanups","id":"CVE-2025-21661"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-01-21","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":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-23","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A bug in the mlx5 network driver causes kernel tasks to hang indefinitely when command allocation fails, leading to a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21662/"}