# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21662"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-21T12:18:17.674Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:56:49.641Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21662"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21662.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21662"
title: "net/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns\n\nWhen cmd_alloc_index(), fails cmd_work_handler() needs\nto complete ent-\u003eslotted before returning early.\nOtherwise the task which issued the command may hang:\n\n   mlx5_core 0000:01:00.0: cmd_work_handler:877:(pid 3880418): failed to allocate command entry\n   INFO: task kworker/13:2:4055883 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n         Not tainted 4.19.90-25.44.v2101.ky10.aarch64 #1\n   \"echo 0 \u003e /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n   kworker/13:2    D    0 4055883      2 0x00000228\n   Workqueue: events mlx5e_tx_dim_work [mlx5_core]\n   Call trace:\n      __switch_to+0xe8/0x150\n      __schedule+0x2a8/0x9b8\n      schedule+0x2c/0x88\n      schedule_timeout+0x204/0x478\n      wait_for_common+0x154/0x250\n      wait_for_completion+0x28/0x38\n      cmd_exec+0x7a0/0xa00 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_cmd_exec+0x54/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq_moderation+0xa0/0xb8 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5e_tx_dim_work+0x54/0x68 [mlx5_core]\n      process_one_work+0x1b0/0x448\n      worker_thread+0x54/0x468\n      kthread+0x134/0x138\n      ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4baae687a20ef2b82fde12de3c04461e6f2521d6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0a2808767ac39f64b1d9a0ff865c255073cf3d4"},{"version":"f9caccdd42e999b74303c9b0643300073ed5d319","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"229cc10284373fbe754e623b7033dca7e7470ec8"},{"version":"485d65e1357123a697c591a5aeb773994b247ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36124081f6ffd9dfaad48830bdf106bb82a9457d"},{"version":"485d65e1357123a697c591a5aeb773994b247ad7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e2909c6bec9048f49d0c8e16887c63b50b14647"},{"version":"2d0962d05c93de391ce85f6e764df895f47c8918","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"94024332a129c6e4275569d85c0c1bfb2ae2d71b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.93","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.125"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.72"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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