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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21767" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:17.067Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:04:16.407Z" 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-2025-21767" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21767.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21767" title: "clocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nclocksource: Use migrate_disable() to avoid calling get_random_u32() in atomic context\n\nThe following bug report happened with a PREEMPT_RT kernel:\n\n BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48\n in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2012, name: kwatchdog\n preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n get_random_u32+0x4f/0x110\n clocksource_verify_choose_cpus+0xab/0x1a0\n clocksource_verify_percpu.part.0+0x6b/0x330\n clocksource_watchdog_kthread+0x193/0x1a0\n\nIt is due to the fact that clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() is invoked with\npreemption disabled. This function invokes get_random_u32() to obtain\nrandom numbers for choosing CPUs. The batched_entropy_32 local lock and/or\nthe base_crng.lock spinlock in driver/char/random.c will be acquired during\nthe call. In PREEMPT_RT kernel, they are both sleeping locks and so cannot\nbe acquired in atomic context.\n\nFix this problem by using migrate_disable() to allow smp_processor_id() to\nbe reliably used without introducing atomic context. preempt_disable() is\nthen called after clocksource_verify_choose_cpus() but before the\nclocksource measurement is being run to avoid introducing unexpected\nlatency." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d9b40ebd448e437ffbc65f013836f98252279a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d9c217fadfcff7a8df58567517d1e4253f3fd243"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60f54f0d4ea530950549a8263e6fdd70a40490a4"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"852805b6cbdb69c298a8fc9fbe79994c95106e04"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8783ceeee797d9aa9cfe150690fb9d0bac8cc459"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc3d79e7c806cb57d71c28a4a35e7d7fb3265faa"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0fb534187d2355f6c8f995321e76d1ccd1262ac1"},{"version":"7560c02bdffb7c52d1457fa551b9e745d4b9e754","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bb05a33337b2c842373857b63de5c9bf1ae2a09"},{"version":"193e14e68e907b2a7a936a7726accbaa4df25a4d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"155d3c5d24ee13cafa6236b49fc02b240a511d59","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.50","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.235"},{"version":"5.12.17","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.13.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"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"}] ## 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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