{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21672 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 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-2025-21672 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21672 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 31 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-2025-21672 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-2025-21672/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21672/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21672","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21672/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21672","record":{"aliases":["AZL-56285","AZL-56327","BELL-CVE-2025-21672","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21672","GHSA-94vp-7849-58r6","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2025-21672","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21672"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel AFS","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a denial of service in the Linux kernel AFS module by causing a lock to remain held when returning to userspace.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"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-667","name":"Improper Locking"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nafs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition\n\nsyzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1].  This is\nbecause if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held\ninode lock is not released.\n\nFix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of\nreturning directly.\n\n[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code\nfrom afs_split_string()]\n\n[1]\nWARNING: lock held when returning to user space!\n6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted\n------------------------------------------------\nsyz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!\n1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823:\n #0: ffff888071cffc00 (\u0026sb-\u003es_type-\u003ei_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline]\n #0: ffff888071cffc00 (\u0026sb-\u003es_type-\u003ei_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388","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":"afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition","id":"CVE-2025-21672","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname","id":"CVE-2025-21673"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"zram: fix potential UAF of zram table","id":"CVE-2025-21671"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-01-31","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 local attacker can trigger a denial of service in the Linux kernel AFS module by causing a lock to remain held when returning to userspace.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21672/"}