CVE-2025-21846
Published: Mar 12, 2025
Modified: May 12, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: acct: perform last write from workqueue In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to trigger NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acc(2) to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs(). A lookup will thus trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs. Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the (strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk. This api should stop to exist though.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 8acbf4a88c6a98c8ed00afd1a7d1abcca9b4735eaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < b03782ae707cc45e65242c7cddd8e28f1c22cde5affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 5d5b936cfa4b0d5670ca7420ef165a074bc008ebaffected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 5ee8da9bea70dda492d61f075658939af33d8410affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - < 5c928e14a2ccd99462f2351ead627b58075bb736+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.12unaffected 0 - < 2.6.12unaffected 5.4.291 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.235 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.179 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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