# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-21893"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-03-31T19:41:46.137Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:55:12.226Z"
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-2025-21893"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21893.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21893"
title: "keys: Fix UAF in key_put()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkeys: Fix UAF in key_put()\n\nOnce a key's reference count has been reduced to 0, the garbage collector\nthread may destroy it at any time and so key_put() is not allowed to touch\nthe key after that point.  The most key_put() is normally allowed to do is\nto touch key_gc_work as that's a static global variable.\n\nHowever, in an effort to speed up the reclamation of quota, this is now\ndone in key_put() once the key's usage is reduced to 0 - but now the code\nis looking at the key after the deadline, which is forbidden.\n\nFix this by using a flag to indicate that a key can be gc'd now rather than\nlooking at the key's refcount in the garbage collector."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9578e327b2b4935a25d49e3891b8fcca9b6c10c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6afe2ea2daec156bd94ad2c5a6f4f4c48240dcd3"},{"version":"9578e327b2b4935a25d49e3891b8fcca9b6c10c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6a3cf833188e897c97028cd7b926e3f2cb1a8c0"},{"version":"9578e327b2b4935a25d49e3891b8fcca9b6c10c6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75845c6c1a64483e9985302793dbf0dfa5f71e32"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.9","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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