# 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-2025-21980"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:47:09.232Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:10:18.630Z"
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-2025-21980"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21980.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21980"
title: "sched: address a potential NULL pointer dereference in the GRED scheduler."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsched: address a potential NULL pointer dereference in the GRED scheduler.\n\nIf kzalloc in gred_init returns a NULL pointer, the code follows the\nerror handling path, invoking gred_destroy. This, in turn, calls\ngred_offload, where memset could receive a NULL pointer as input,\npotentially leading to a kernel crash.\n\nWhen table-\u003eopt is NULL in gred_init(), gred_change_table_def()\nis not called yet, so it is not necessary to call -\u003endo_setup_tc()\nin gred_offload()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f25c0515c521375154c62c72447869f40218c861","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d02c9acd68950a444acda18d514e2b41f846cb7f"},{"version":"f25c0515c521375154c62c72447869f40218c861","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f0a152957d64ce45b4c27c687e7d087e8f45079"},{"version":"f25c0515c521375154c62c72447869f40218c861","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"68896dd50180b38ea552e49a6a00b685321e5769"},{"version":"f25c0515c521375154c62c72447869f40218c861","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f996b4f80c2cef1f9c77275055e7fcba44c9199"},{"version":"f25c0515c521375154c62c72447869f40218c861","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"115ef44a98220fddfab37a39a19370497cd718b9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.84","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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