# 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-2025-21976"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:47:07.120Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:36:12.299Z"
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-2025-21976"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21976.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21976"
title: "fbdev: hyperv_fb: Allow graceful removal of framebuffer"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: hyperv_fb: Allow graceful removal of framebuffer\n\nWhen a Hyper-V framebuffer device is unbind, hyperv_fb driver tries to\nrelease the framebuffer forcefully. If this framebuffer is in use it\nproduce the following WARN and hence this framebuffer is never released.\n\n[   44.111220] WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 1882 at drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c:70 framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40\n\u003c snip \u003e\n[   44.111289] Call Trace:\n[   44.111290]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[   44.111291]  ? show_regs+0x6c/0x80\n[   44.111295]  ? __warn+0x8d/0x150\n[   44.111298]  ? framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40\n[   44.111300]  ? report_bug+0x182/0x1b0\n[   44.111303]  ? handle_bug+0x6e/0xb0\n[   44.111306]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x80\n[   44.111308]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20\n[   44.111311]  ? framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40\n[   44.111313]  ? hvfb_remove+0x86/0xa0 [hyperv_fb]\n[   44.111315]  vmbus_remove+0x24/0x40 [hv_vmbus]\n[   44.111323]  device_remove+0x40/0x80\n[   44.111325]  device_release_driver_internal+0x20b/0x270\n[   44.111327]  ? bus_find_device+0xb3/0xf0\n\nFix this by moving the release of framebuffer and assosiated memory\nto fb_ops.fb_destroy function, so that framebuffer framework handles\nit gracefully.\n\nWhile we fix this, also replace manual registrations/unregistration of\nframebuffer with devm_register_framebuffer."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"68a2d20b79b105f02dcbc52c211d7e62f98996b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1a86a5ab0d44160534f495a3630646092d98e27"},{"version":"68a2d20b79b105f02dcbc52c211d7e62f98996b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4545e2aa121aea304d33903099c03e29ed4fe50a"},{"version":"68a2d20b79b105f02dcbc52c211d7e62f98996b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a7b583dc99c6cf4a96877017be1d08247e1ef2c7"},{"version":"68a2d20b79b105f02dcbc52c211d7e62f98996b7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea2f45ab0e53b255f72c85ccd99e2b394fc5fceb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.8","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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