# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21781"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-27T02:18:24.013Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:06:18.377Z"
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-2025-21781"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21781.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21781"
title: "batman-adv: fix panic during interface removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbatman-adv: fix panic during interface removal\n\nReference counting is used to ensure that\nbatadv_hardif_neigh_node and batadv_hard_iface\nare not freed before/during\nbatadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update work is\nfinished.\n\nBut there isn't a guarantee that the hard if will\nremain associated with a soft interface up until\nthe work is finished.\n\nThis fixes a crash triggered by reboot that looks\nlike this:\n\nCall trace:\n batadv_v_mesh_free+0xd0/0x4dc [batman_adv]\n batadv_v_elp_throughput_metric_update+0x1c/0xa4\n process_one_work+0x178/0x398\n worker_thread+0x2e8/0x4d0\n kthread+0xd8/0xdc\n ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\n(the batadv_v_mesh_free call is misleading,\nand does not actually happen)\n\nI was able to make the issue happen more reliably\nby changing hardif_neigh-\u003ebat_v.metric_work work\nto be delayed work. This allowed me to track down\nand confirm the fix.\n\n[sven@narfation.org: prevent entering batadv_v_elp_get_throughput without\n soft_iface]"
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