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CVE-2025-21840

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CVE-2025-21840

Published: Mar 7, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/netlink: Prevent userspace segmentation fault by adjusting UAPI header The intel-lpmd tool [1], which uses the THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_CPU_CAPABILITY attribute to receive HFI events from kernel space, encounters a segmentation fault after commit 1773572863c4 ("thermal: netlink: Add the commands and the events for the thresholds"). The issue arises because the THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_CPU_CAPABILITY raw value was changed while intel_lpmd still uses the old value. Although intel_lpmd can be updated to check the THERMAL_GENL_VERSION and use the appropriate THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_CPU_CAPABILITY value, the commit itself is questionable. The commit introduced a new element in the middle of enum thermal_genl_attr, which affects many existing attributes and introduces potential risks and unnecessary maintenance burdens for userspace thermal netlink event users. Solve the issue by moving the newly introduced THERMAL_GENL_ATTR_TZ_PREV_TEMP attribute to the end of the enum thermal_genl_attr. This ensures that all existing thermal generic netlink attributes remain unaffected. [ rjw: Subject edits ]

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
1773572863c43a14a3e45f0591f28b7dec1ee52a - < 3a4ca365c51729143a2cab693cd40fe0bb585ef0
affected
1773572863c43a14a3e45f0591f28b7dec1ee52a - < c195b9c6ab9c383d7aa3f4a65879b3ca90cb378b

Linux

Linux

affected
6.13
unaffected
0 - < 6.13
unaffected
6.13.4 - <= 6.13.*
unaffected
6.14 - <= *

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