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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21943" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:41:07.463Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:09:32.538Z" 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-2025-21943" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21943.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21943" title: "gpio: aggregator: protect driver attr handlers against module unload" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngpio: aggregator: protect driver attr handlers against module unload\n\nBoth new_device_store and delete_device_store touch module global\nresources (e.g. gpio_aggregator_lock). To prevent race conditions with\nmodule unload, a reference needs to be held.\n\nAdd try_module_get() in these handlers.\n\nFor new_device_store, this eliminates what appears to be the most dangerous\nscenario: if an id is allocated from gpio_aggregator_idr but\nplatform_device_register has not yet been called or completed, a concurrent\nmodule unload could fail to unregister/delete the device, leaving behind a\ndangling platform device/GPIO forwarder. This can result in various issues.\nThe following simple reproducer demonstrates these problems:\n\n #!/bin/bash\n while :; do\n # note: whether 'gpiochip0 0' exists or not does not matter.\n echo 'gpiochip0 0' \u003e /sys/bus/platform/drivers/gpio-aggregator/new_device\n done &\n while :; do\n modprobe gpio-aggregator\n modprobe -r gpio-aggregator\n done &\n wait\n\n Starting with the following warning, several kinds of warnings will appear\n and the system may become unstable:\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n list_del corruption, ffff888103e2e980-\u003enext is LIST_POISON1 (dead000000000100)\n WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1327 at lib/list_debug.c:56 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xf2\n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n ? report_bug+0xe6/0x170\n ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x39/0xe0\n ? handle_bug+0x58/0x90\n ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60\n ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20\n ? __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa3/0x120\n gpiod_remove_lookup_table+0x22/0x60\n new_device_store+0x315/0x350 [gpio_aggregator]\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x137/0x1f0\n vfs_write+0x262/0x430\n ksys_write+0x60/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x180\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n [...]\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd6aa1f8cbe0979eb66ac32ebc231bf0b10a2117"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"807789018186cf508ceb3a1f8f02935cd195717b"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9334c88fc2fbc6836b307d269fcc1744c69701c0"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d99dc8f7ea01ee1b21306e0eda8eb18a4af80db6"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fb07fb1bba91d45846ed8605c3097fe67a7d54c"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56281a76b805b5ac61feb5d580139695a22f87f0"},{"version":"828546e24280f721350a7a0dcc92416e917b4382","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12f65d1203507f7db3ba59930fe29a3b8eee9945"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.179","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.131","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.7","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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