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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21899" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:26:50.791Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:55.265Z" 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-2025-21899" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21899.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21899" title: "tracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Fix bad hist from corrupting named_triggers list\n\nThe following commands causes a crash:\n\n ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/rcu/rcu_callback\n ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid:onmax(bogus).save(common_pid)' \u003e trigger\n bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument\n ~# echo 'hist:name=bad:keys=common_pid' \u003e trigger\n\nBecause the following occurs:\n\nevent_trigger_write() {\n trigger_process_regex() {\n event_hist_trigger_parse() {\n\n data = event_trigger_alloc(..);\n\n event_trigger_register(.., data) {\n cmd_ops-\u003ereg(.., data, ..) [hist_register_trigger()] {\n data-\u003eops-\u003einit() [event_hist_trigger_init()] {\n save_named_trigger(name, data) {\n list_add(&data-\u003enamed_list, &named_triggers);\n }\n }\n }\n }\n\n ret = create_actions(); (return -EINVAL)\n if (ret)\n goto out_unreg;\n[..]\n ret = hist_trigger_enable(data, ...) {\n list_add_tail_rcu(&data-\u003elist, &file-\u003etriggers); \u003c\u003c\u003c---- SKIPPED!!! (this is important!)\n[..]\n out_unreg:\n event_hist_unregister(.., data) {\n cmd_ops-\u003eunreg(.., data, ..) [hist_unregister_trigger()] {\n list_for_each_entry(iter, &file-\u003etriggers, list) {\n if (!hist_trigger_match(data, iter, named_data, false)) \u003c- never matches\n continue;\n [..]\n test = iter;\n }\n if (test && test-\u003eops-\u003efree) \u003c\u003c\u003c-- test is NULL\n\n test-\u003eops-\u003efree(test) [event_hist_trigger_free()] {\n [..]\n if (data-\u003ename)\n del_named_trigger(data) {\n list_del(&data-\u003enamed_list); \u003c\u003c\u003c\u003c-- NEVER gets removed!\n }\n }\n }\n }\n\n [..]\n kfree(data); \u003c\u003c\u003c-- frees item but it is still on list\n\nThe next time a hist with name is registered, it causes an u-a-f bug and\nthe kernel can crash.\n\nMove the code around such that if event_trigger_register() succeeds, the\nnext thing called is hist_trigger_enable() which adds it to the list.\n\nA bunch of actions is called if get_named_trigger_data() returns false.\nBut that doesn't need to be called after event_trigger_register(), so it\ncan be moved up, allowing event_trigger_register() to be called just\nbefore hist_trigger_enable() keeping them together and allowing the\nfile-\u003etriggers to be properly populated." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ae1b18f05ee2b849dc03b6c15d7da0c1c6efa77"},{"version":"067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43b254d46c740bf9dbe65709afa021dd726dfa99"},{"version":"067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"435d2964af815aae456db554c62963b4515f19d0"},{"version":"067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f1ae50cfb818ce1ac7a674406dfadb7653e2552d"},{"version":"067fe038e70f6e64960d26a79c4df5f1413d0f13","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f86bdeab633a56d5c6dccf1a2c5989b6a5e323e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"version":"6.1.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"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"}] ## 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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