# 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-2025-21852"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-12T09:42:07.175Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:07:45.279Z"
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-2025-21852"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21852.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21852"
title: "net: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[]."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: Add rx_skb of kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[].\n\nYan Zhai reported a BPF prog could trigger a null-ptr-deref [0]\nin trace_kfree_skb if the prog does not check if rx_sk is NULL.\n\nCommit c53795d48ee8 (\"net: add rx_sk to trace_kfree_skb\") added\nrx_sk to trace_kfree_skb, but rx_sk is optional and could be NULL.\n\nLet's add kfree_skb to raw_tp_null_args[] to let the BPF verifier\nvalidate such a prog and prevent the issue.\n\nNow we fail to load such a prog:\n\n  libbpf: prog 'drop': -- BEGIN PROG LOAD LOG --\n  0: R1=ctx() R10=fp0\n  ; int BPF_PROG(drop, struct sk_buff *skb, void *location, @ kfree_skb_sk_null.bpf.c:21\n  0: (79) r3 = *(u64 *)(r1 +24)\n  func 'kfree_skb' arg3 has btf_id 5253 type STRUCT 'sock'\n  1: R1=ctx() R3_w=trusted_ptr_or_null_sock(id=1)\n  ; bpf_printk(\"sk: %d, %d\\n\", sk, sk-\u003e__sk_common.skc_family); @ kfree_skb_sk_null.bpf.c:24\n  1: (69) r4 = *(u16 *)(r3 +16)\n  R3 invalid mem access 'trusted_ptr_or_null_'\n  processed 2 insns (limit 1000000) max_states_per_insn 0 total_states 0 peak_states 0 mark_read 0\n  -- END PROG LOAD LOG --\n\nNote this fix requires commit 838a10bd2ebf (\"bpf: Augment raw_tp\narguments with PTR_MAYBE_NULL\").\n\n[0]:\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010\n PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nPREEMPT SMP\nRIP: 0010:bpf_prog_5e21a6db8fcff1aa_drop+0x10/0x2d\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x1f/0x60\n ? page_fault_oops+0x148/0x420\n ? search_bpf_extables+0x5b/0x70\n ? fixup_exception+0x27/0x2c0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x170\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n ? bpf_prog_5e21a6db8fcff1aa_drop+0x10/0x2d\n bpf_trace_run4+0x68/0xd0\n ? unix_stream_connect+0x1f4/0x6f0\n sk_skb_reason_drop+0x90/0x120\n unix_stream_connect+0x1f4/0x6f0\n __sys_connect+0x7f/0xb0\n __x64_sys_connect+0x14/0x20\n do_syscall_64+0x47/0xc30\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c53795d48ee8f385c6a9e394651e7ee914baaeba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f579afacd0a66971fc8481f30d2d377e230a8342"},{"version":"c53795d48ee8f385c6a9e394651e7ee914baaeba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dba79c1e7aad6620bbb707b6c4459380fd90860"},{"version":"c53795d48ee8f385c6a9e394651e7ee914baaeba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5da7e15fb5a12e78de974d8908f348e279922ce9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.5","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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