{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21938 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2025-21938 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21938 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-21938 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Apr 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21938 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-2025-21938/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21938/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-21938","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21938/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-21938","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2025-21938","DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21938","GHSA-64vr-rmgj-v53q","UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21938"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP module causes a scheduling while atomic bug, leading to a system crash or denial of service.","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":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr\n\nIf multiple connection requests attempt to create an implicit mptcp\nendpoint in parallel, more than one caller may end up in\nmptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr because none found the address in\nlocal_addr_list during their call to mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id.  In this\ncase, the concurrent new_local_addr calls may delete the address entry\ncreated by the previous caller.  These deletes use synchronize_rcu, but\nthis is not permitted in some of the contexts where this function may be\ncalled.  During packet recv, the caller may be in a rcu read critical\nsection and have preemption disabled.\n\nAn example stack:\n\n   BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/2/0/0x00000302\n\n   Call Trace:\n   \u003cIRQ\u003e\n   dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:117 (discriminator 1))\n   dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:124)\n   __schedule_bug (kernel/sched/core.c:5943)\n   schedule_debug.constprop.0 (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:33 kernel/sched/core.c:5970)\n   __schedule (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:27 include/linux/jump_label.h:207 kernel/sched/features.h:29 kernel/sched/core.c:6621)\n   schedule (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:84 kernel/sched/core.c:6804 kernel/sched/core.c:6818)\n   schedule_timeout (kernel/time/timer.c:2160)\n   wait_for_completion (kernel/sched/completion.c:96 kernel/sched/completion.c:116 kernel/sched/completion.c:127 kernel/sched/completion.c:148)\n   __wait_rcu_gp (include/linux/rcupdate.h:311 kernel/rcu/update.c:444)\n   synchronize_rcu (kernel/rcu/tree.c:3609)\n   mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr (net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:966 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1061)\n   mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id (net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c:1164)\n   mptcp_pm_get_local_id (net/mptcp/pm.c:420)\n   subflow_check_req (net/mptcp/subflow.c:98 net/mptcp/subflow.c:213)\n   subflow_v4_route_req (net/mptcp/subflow.c:305)\n   tcp_conn_request (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:7216)\n   subflow_v4_conn_request (net/mptcp/subflow.c:651)\n   tcp_rcv_state_process (net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6709)\n   tcp_v4_do_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1934)\n   tcp_v4_rcv (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2334)\n   ip_protocol_deliver_rcu (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205 (discriminator 1))\n   ip_local_deliver_finish (include/linux/rcupdate.h:813 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:234)\n   ip_local_deliver (include/linux/netfilter.h:314 include/linux/netfilter.h:308 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:254)\n   ip_sublist_rcv_finish (include/net/dst.h:461 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:580)\n   ip_sublist_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:640)\n   ip_list_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:675)\n   __netif_receive_skb_list_core (net/core/dev.c:5583 net/core/dev.c:5631)\n   netif_receive_skb_list_internal (net/core/dev.c:5685 net/core/dev.c:5774)\n   napi_complete_done (include/linux/list.h:37 include/net/gro.h:449 include/net/gro.h:444 net/core/dev.c:6114)\n   igb_poll (drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:8244) igb\n   __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:6582)\n   net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:6653 net/core/dev.c:6787)\n   handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:553)\n   __irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:588 kernel/softirq.c:427 kernel/softirq.c:636)\n   irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:651)\n   common_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:247 (discriminator 14))\n   \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n\nThis problem seems particularly prevalent if the user advertises an\nendpoint that has a different external vs internal address.  In the case\nwhere the external address is advertised and multiple connections\nalready exist, multiple subflow SYNs arrive in parallel which tends to\ntrigger the race during creation of the first local_addr_list entries\nwhich have the internal address instead.\n\nFix by skipping the replacement of an existing implicit local address if\ncalled via mptcp_pm_nl_get_local_id.","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":"mptcp: fix 'scheduling while atomic' in mptcp_pm_nl_append_new_local_addr","id":"CVE-2025-21938","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":5,"next":{"headline":"drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock","id":"CVE-2025-21939"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Bluetooth: Add check for mgmt_alloc_skb() in mgmt_remote_name()","id":"CVE-2025-21937"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-04-01","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":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A race condition in the Linux kernel MPTCP module causes a scheduling while atomic bug, leading to a system crash or denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21938/"}