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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21713"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:07:24.950Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:04:58.043Z"
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-2025-21713"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21713.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21713"
title: "powerpc/pseries/iommu: Don't unset window if it was never set"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/pseries/iommu: Don't unset window if it was never set\n\nOn pSeries, when user attempts to use the same vfio container used by\ndifferent iommu group, the spapr_tce_set_window() returns -EPERM\nand the subsequent cleanup leads to the below crash.\n\n   Kernel attempted to read user page (308) - exploit attempt?\n   BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000308\n   Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000001ce358\n   Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]\n   NIP:  c0000000001ce358 LR: c0000000001ce05c CTR: c00000000005add0\n   \u003csnip\u003e\n   NIP [c0000000001ce358] spapr_tce_unset_window+0x3b8/0x510\n   LR [c0000000001ce05c] spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510\n   Call Trace:\n     spapr_tce_unset_window+0xbc/0x510 (unreliable)\n     tce_iommu_attach_group+0x24c/0x340 [vfio_iommu_spapr_tce]\n     vfio_container_attach_group+0xec/0x240 [vfio]\n     vfio_group_fops_unl_ioctl+0x548/0xb00 [vfio]\n     sys_ioctl+0x754/0x1580\n     system_call_exception+0x13c/0x330\n     system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec\n   \u003csnip\u003e\n   --- interrupt: 3000\n\nFix this by having null check for the tbl passed to the\nspapr_tce_unset_window()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f431a8cde7f102fce412546db6e62fdbde1131a7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b853ff0b514c1df314246fcf94744005914b48cb"},{"version":"f431a8cde7f102fce412546db6e62fdbde1131a7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac12372a13dab3f7a2762db240bd180de8ef1e5e"},{"version":"f431a8cde7f102fce412546db6e62fdbde1131a7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"17391cb2613b82f8c405570fea605af3255ff8d2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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