# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21883"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-27T14:57:11.766Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:08:22.109Z"
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-2025-21883"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21883.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21883"
title: "ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path\n\nIf ice_ena_vfs() fails after calling ice_create_vf_entries(), it frees\nall VFs without removing them from snapshot PF-VF mailbox list, leading\nto list corruption.\n\nReproducer:\n  devlink dev eswitch set $PF1_PCI mode switchdev\n  ip l s $PF1 up\n  ip l s $PF1 promisc on\n  sleep 1\n  echo 1 \u003e /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs\n  sleep 1\n  echo 1 \u003e /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs\n\nTrace (minimized):\n  list_add corruption. next-\u003eprev should be prev (ffff8882e241c6f0), but was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff888455da1330).\n  kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29!\n  RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xa6/0x100\n   ice_mbx_init_vf_info+0xa7/0x180 [ice]\n   ice_initialize_vf_entry+0x1fa/0x250 [ice]\n   ice_sriov_configure+0x8d7/0x1520 [ice]\n   ? __percpu_ref_switch_mode+0x1b1/0x5d0\n   ? __pfx_ice_sriov_configure+0x10/0x10 [ice]\n\nSometimes a KASAN report can be seen instead with a similar stack trace:\n  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf1/0x100\n\nVFs are added to this list in ice_mbx_init_vf_info(), but only removed\nin ice_free_vfs(). Move the removing to ice_free_vf_entries(), which is\nalso being called in other places where VFs are being removed (including\nice_free_vfs() itself)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c01102bec9592928e6b155da41cfcd5d25a2066"},{"version":"8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a4880583f88deba63504ce1c8287a70d39c01378"},{"version":"8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"34393fd78d7183a007eaf0090966ebedcc29bd57"},{"version":"8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"79990cf5e7aded76d0c092c9f5ed31eb1c75e02c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.6","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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