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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21689" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-10T15:58:45.493Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:04:31.416Z" 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-2025-21689" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21689.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21689" title: "USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb()\n\nThis patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() due to\nan incorrect bounds check in the following:\n\n if (newport \u003e serial-\u003enum_ports) {\n dev_err(&port-\u003edev,\n \"%s - port change to invalid port: %i\\n\",\n __func__, newport);\n break;\n }\n\nThe condition doesn't account for the valid range of the serial-\u003eport\nbuffer, which is from 0 to serial-\u003enum_ports - 1. When newport is equal\nto serial-\u003enum_ports, the assignment of \"port\" in the\nfollowing code is out-of-bounds and NULL:\n\n serial_priv-\u003ecurrent_port = newport;\n port = serial-\u003eport[serial_priv-\u003ecurrent_port];\n\nThe fix checks if newport is greater than or equal to serial-\u003enum_ports\nindicating it is out-of-bounds." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa4c7472469d97c4707698b4c0e098f8cfc2bf22"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94770cf7c5124f0268d481886829dc2beecc4507"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6068dcff7f19e9fa6fa23ee03453ad6a40fa4efe"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b9b41fabcd38990f69ef0cee9c631d954a2b530"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6377838560c03b36e1153a42ef727533def9b68f"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f371471708c7d997f763b0e70565026eb67cc470"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8542b33622571f54dfc2a267fce378b6e3840b8b"},{"version":"f7a33e608d9ae022b7f49307921627e34e9484ed","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"575a5adf48b06a2980c9eeffedf699ed5534fade"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"5.4.290","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.234","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.128","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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