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CVE-2025-21998

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

firmware: qcom: uefisecapp: fix efivars registration race

Since the conversion to using the TZ allocator, the efivars service is registered before the memory pool has been allocated, something which can lead to a NULL-pointer dereference in case of a racing EFI variable access.

Make sure that all resources have been set up before registering the efivars.

  • Published: Apr 3, 2025
  • Updated: May 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-21998
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.7
  • AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc1 6.14-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc2 6.14-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc3 6.14-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc4 6.14-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.13 6.13.9
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc5 6.14-rc5.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.11 6.12.21
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc6 6.14-rc6.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.14-rc7 6.14-rc7.x