{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21744 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 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-2025-21744 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Feb 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-2025-21744 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-2025-21744/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21744/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21744","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21744/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21744","record":{"aliases":["AZL-57914","BELL-CVE-2025-21744","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21744","GHSA-xqj4-x748-chwg","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-21744","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21744"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel Wi-Fi driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the brcmfmac Wi-Fi driver can cause a kernel crash during device removal or module unloading.","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":"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":[{"id":"CWE-476","name":"NULL Pointer Dereference"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwifi: brcmfmac: fix NULL pointer dereference in brcmf_txfinalize()\n\nOn removal of the device or unloading of the kernel module a potential NULL\npointer dereference occurs.\n\nThe following sequence deletes the interface:\n\n  brcmf_detach()\n    brcmf_remove_interface()\n      brcmf_del_if()\n\nInside the brcmf_del_if() function the drvr-\u003eif2bss[ifidx] is updated to\nBRCMF_BSSIDX_INVALID (-1) if the bsscfgidx matches.\n\nAfter brcmf_remove_interface() call the brcmf_proto_detach() function is\ncalled providing the following sequence:\n\n  brcmf_detach()\n    brcmf_proto_detach()\n      brcmf_proto_msgbuf_detach()\n        brcmf_flowring_detach()\n          brcmf_msgbuf_delete_flowring()\n            brcmf_msgbuf_remove_flowring()\n              brcmf_flowring_delete()\n                brcmf_get_ifp()\n                brcmf_txfinalize()\n\nSince brcmf_get_ip() can and actually will return NULL in this case the\ncall to brcmf_txfinalize() will result in a NULL pointer dereference inside\nbrcmf_txfinalize() when trying to update ifp-\u003endev-\u003estats.tx_errors.\n\nThis will only happen if a flowring still has an skb.\n\nAlthough the NULL pointer dereference has only been seen when trying to\nupdate the tx statistic, all other uses of the ifp pointer have been\nguarded as well with an early return if ifp is NULL.","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":"wifi: brcmfmac: fix NULL pointer dereference in brcmf_txfinalize()","id":"CVE-2025-21744","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":8,"next":{"headline":"blk-cgroup: Fix class @block_class's subsystem refcount leakage","id":"CVE-2025-21745"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"usbnet: ipheth: fix possible overflow in DPE length check","id":"CVE-2025-21743"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-02-27","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":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A NULL pointer dereference in the brcmfmac Wi-Fi driver can cause a kernel crash during device removal or module unloading.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21744/"}