CVE-2025-21786 (GCVE-0-2025-21786)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-02-27 02:18
Modified
2026-08-05 11:54
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: workqueue: Put the pwq after detaching the rescuer from the pool The commit 68f83057b913("workqueue: Reap workers via kthread_stop() and remove detach_completion") adds code to reap the normal workers but mistakenly does not handle the rescuer and also removes the code waiting for the rescuer in put_unbound_pool(), which caused a use-after-free bug reported by Cheung Wall. To avoid the use-after-free bug, the pool’s reference must be held until the detachment is complete. Therefore, move the code that puts the pwq after detaching the rescuer from the pool.
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Linux Linux Version: 68f83057b913467a999e1bf9e0da6a119668f769
Version: 68f83057b913467a999e1bf9e0da6a119668f769
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