CVE-2025-21846
acct: perform last write from workqueue
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
12 Mar 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.htmlhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56d5f3eba3f5de0efdd556de4ef381e109b973a9https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a59ced8ffc71973d42c82484a719c8f6ac8f7f7https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c928e14a2ccd99462f2351ead627b58075bb736https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d5b936cfa4b0d5670ca7420ef165a074bc008ebhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ee8da9bea70dda492d61f075658939af33d8410https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8acbf4a88c6a98c8ed00afd1a7d1abcca9b4735ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8136afca090412a36429cb6c2543c714d9c0f84https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b03782ae707cc45e65242c7cddd8e28f1c22cde5https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html