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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21739" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:12:14.581Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-01T16:05:01.006Z" 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-2025-21739" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21739.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21739" title: "scsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: ufs: core: Fix use-after free in init error and remove paths\n\ndevm_blk_crypto_profile_init() registers a cleanup handler to run when\nthe associated (platform-) device is being released. For UFS, the\ncrypto private data and pointers are stored as part of the ufs_hba's\ndata structure 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This structure is\nallocated as part of the underlying ufshcd and therefore Scsi_host\nallocation.\n\nDuring driver release or during error handling in ufshcd_pltfrm_init(),\nthis structure is released as part of ufshcd_dealloc_host() before the\n(platform-) device associated with the crypto call above is released.\nOnce this device is released, the crypto cleanup code will run, using\nthe just-released 'struct ufs_hba::crypto_profile'. This causes a\nuse-after-free situation:\n\n Call trace:\n kfree+0x60/0x2d8 (P)\n kvfree+0x44/0x60\n blk_crypto_profile_destroy_callback+0x28/0x70\n devm_action_release+0x1c/0x30\n release_nodes+0x6c/0x108\n devres_release_all+0x98/0x100\n device_unbind_cleanup+0x20/0x70\n really_probe+0x218/0x2d0\n\nIn other words, the initialisation code flow is:\n\n platform-device probe\n ufshcd_pltfrm_init()\n ufshcd_alloc_host()\n scsi_host_alloc()\n allocation of struct ufs_hba\n creation of scsi-host devices\n devm_blk_crypto_profile_init()\n devm registration of cleanup handler using platform-device\n\nand during error handling of ufshcd_pltfrm_init() or during driver\nremoval:\n\n ufshcd_dealloc_host()\n scsi_host_put()\n put_device(scsi-host)\n release of struct ufs_hba\n put_device(platform-device)\n crypto cleanup handler\n\nTo fix this use-after free, change ufshcd_alloc_host() to register a\ndevres action to automatically cleanup the underlying SCSI device on\nufshcd destruction, without requiring explicit calls to\nufshcd_dealloc_host(). This way:\n\n * the crypto profile and all other ufs_hba-owned resources are\n destroyed before SCSI (as they've been registered after)\n * a memleak is plugged in tc-dwc-g210-pci.c remove() as a\n side-effect\n * EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ufshcd_dealloc_host) can be removed fully as\n it's not needed anymore\n * no future drivers using ufshcd_alloc_host() could ever forget\n adding the cleanup" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0a6895c03b1f439236e2d22b1a69ebfc1eb9d5ea"},{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d06eb2620d3bf16056b8b7ea3744dbb5e30512f4"},{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0dc539b888fb5f56b6eeddd95433eab557d4b0c1"},{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c77c0d754fe83cb154715fcfec6c3faef94f207"},{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c185beae09a3eb85f54777edafa227f7e03075d"},{"version":"d76d9d7d1009968dd3a0fc30e5f5ee9fbffc1350","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f8fb2403ddebb5eea0033d90d9daae4c88749ada"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.135","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.3","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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