CVE-2025-21824

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 27, 2025

Updated: Mar 5, 2025

CWE ID 908

Summary

CVE-2025-21824 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel's host1x driver. The issue stemmed from a use of an uninitialized mutex, causing a warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES and CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled. This vulnerability was introduced by commit c8347f915e67 and was discovered during the resolution of a boot regression issue for Tegra. The impacted modules include host1x, rtw88_8822c, bluetooth, and others. This vulnerability could potentially lead to system instability or crashes.

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Linux Kernel

Affected Vendors

LINUX

Advisories, Assessments, and Mitigations

https://app.recordedfuture.com/live/sc/entity/3xkmFC
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21824
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21824

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