🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21792
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ax25: Fix refcount leak caused by setting SO_BINDTODEVICE sockopt If an AX25 device is bound to a socket by setting the SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option, a refcount leak will occur in ax25_release(). Commit 9fd75b66b8f6 ("ax25: Fix refcount leaks caused by ax25_cb_del()") added decrement of device refcounts in ax25_release(). In order for that to work correctly the refcounts must already be incremented when the device is bound to the socket. An AX25 device can be bound to a socket by either calling ax25_bind() or setting SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option. In both cases the refcounts should be incremented, but in fact it is done only in ax25_bind(). This bug leads to the following issue reported by Syzkaller: ================================================================ refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5932 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0x1ed/0x210 lib/refcount.c:31 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5932 Comm: syz-executor424 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc4-syzkaller-00110-g4099a71718b0 #0 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x1ed/0x210 lib/refcount.c:31 Call Trace: __refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:336 [inline] refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:351 [inline] ref_tracker_free+0x710/0x820 lib/ref_tracker.c:236 netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4156 [inline] netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4173 [inline] netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4169 [inline] ax25_release+0x33f/0xa10 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1069 __sock_release+0xb0/0x270 net/socket.c:640 sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1408 ... do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f ... ================================================================ Fix the implementation of ax25_setsockopt() by adding increment of refcounts for the new device bound, and decrement of refcounts for the old unbound device.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-02-27
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-06-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux 6.8.0-78.78
linux-allwinner-5.19
linux-aws 6.8.0-1035.37
linux-aws-5.0
linux-aws-5.11
linux-aws-5.13
linux-aws-5.15
linux-aws-5.19
linux-aws-5.3
linux-aws-5.4
linux-aws-5.8
linux-aws-6.2
linux-aws-6.5
linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1035.37~22.04.1
linux-aws-fips
linux-aws-hwe
linux-azure 6.8.0-1034.39
linux-azure-4.15
linux-azure-5.11
linux-azure-5.13
linux-azure-5.15
linux-azure-5.19
linux-azure-5.3
linux-azure-5.4
linux-azure-5.8
linux-azure-6.11 6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1
linux-azure-6.2
linux-azure-6.5
linux-azure-6.8 6.8.0-1034.39~22.04.1
linux-azure-edge
linux-azure-fde
linux-azure-fde-5.19
linux-azure-fde-6.2
linux-azure-fips
linux-azure-nvidia 6.8.0-1022.23
linux-bluefield
linux-fips 6.8.0-78.78+fips1
linux-gcp 6.8.0-1036.38
linux-gcp-4.15
linux-gcp-5.11
linux-gcp-5.13
linux-gcp-5.15
linux-gcp-5.19
linux-gcp-5.3
linux-gcp-5.4
linux-gcp-5.8
linux-gcp-6.11 6.11.0-1015.15~24.04.1
linux-gcp-6.2
linux-gcp-6.5
linux-gcp-6.8 6.8.0-1036.38~22.04.1
linux-gcp-fips
linux-gke 6.8.0-1032.36
linux-gke-4.15
linux-gke-5.15
linux-gke-5.4
linux-gkeop 6.8.0-1019.21
linux-gkeop-5.15
linux-gkeop-5.4
linux-hwe
linux-hwe-5.11
linux-hwe-5.13
linux-hwe-5.15
linux-hwe-5.19
linux-hwe-5.4
linux-hwe-5.8
linux-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-26.26~24.04.1
linux-hwe-6.2
linux-hwe-6.5
linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-78.78~22.04.1
linux-hwe-edge
linux-ibm 6.8.0-1033.33
linux-ibm-5.15
linux-ibm-5.4
linux-ibm-6.8 6.8.0-1033.33~22.04.1
linux-intel
linux-intel-5.13
linux-intel-iot-realtime
linux-intel-iotg
linux-intel-iotg-5.15
linux-iot
linux-kvm
linux-lowlatency 6.8.0-78.78.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 6.11.0-1014.15~24.04.1
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-78.78.1~22.04.1
linux-lts-xenial
linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1035.38
linux-nvidia-6.11 6.11.0-1010.10
linux-nvidia-6.2
linux-nvidia-6.5
linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1035.38~22.04.1
linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1035.38.1
linux-nvidia-tegra 6.8.0-1009.9
linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15
linux-nvidia-tegra-igx
linux-oem
linux-oem-5.10
linux-oem-5.13
linux-oem-5.14
linux-oem-5.17
linux-oem-5.6
linux-oem-6.0
linux-oem-6.1
linux-oem-6.11 6.11.0-1022.22
linux-oem-6.5
linux-oem-6.8
linux-oracle 6.8.0-1032.33
linux-oracle-5.0
linux-oracle-5.11
linux-oracle-5.13
linux-oracle-5.15
linux-oracle-5.3
linux-oracle-5.4
linux-oracle-5.8
linux-oracle-6.5
linux-oracle-6.8 6.8.0-1032.33~22.04.1
linux-raspi 6.8.0-1035.39
linux-raspi-5.4
linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2028.29
linux-raspi2
linux-realtime 6.8.1-1030.31
linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1030.31~22.04.1
linux-riscv
linux-riscv-5.11
linux-riscv-5.15
linux-riscv-5.19
linux-riscv-5.8
linux-riscv-6.5
linux-riscv-6.8 6.8.0-78.78~22.04.1
linux-starfive-5.19
linux-starfive-6.2
linux-starfive-6.5
linux-xilinx 6.8.0-1017.18
linux-xilinx-zynqmp

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