CVE-2025-21901 (GCVE-0-2025-21901)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-01 15:26
Modified
2026-08-05 11:55
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: RDMA/bnxt_re: Add sanity checks on rdev validity There is a possibility that ulp_irq_stop and ulp_irq_start callbacks will be called when the device is in detached state. This can cause a crash due to NULL pointer dereference as the rdev is already freed.
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Linux Linux Version: cc5b9b48d44756a87170f3901c6c2fd99e6b89b2
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