# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21761"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:14.054Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:07.041Z"
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-2025-21761"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21761.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21761"
title: "openvswitch: use RCU protection in ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nopenvswitch: use RCU protection in ovs_vport_cmd_fill_info()\n\novs_vport_cmd_fill_info() can be called without RTNL or RCU.\n\nUse RCU protection and dev_net_rcu() to avoid potential UAF."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e85a25d1a9985645e796039e843d1de581d2de1e"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8816b3f1f151373fd30f1996f00480126c8bb11"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a884f57600e463f69d7b279c4598b865260b62a1"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e01abc34e87abd091e619161a20f54ed4e3e2da"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ec57509c36c8b9a23e50b7858dda0c520a2d074"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a849a10de5e04d798f7f286a2f1ca174719a617a"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5828937742af74666192835d657095d95c53dbd0"},{"version":"9354d452034273a50a4fd703bea31e5d6b1fc20b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"90b2f49a502fa71090d9f4fe29a2f51fe5dff76d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.4.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.129","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.79","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.4","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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