CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-21871

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-03-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tee: optee: Fix supplicant wait loop OP-TEE supplicant is a user-space daemon and it's possible for it be hung or crashed or killed in the middle of processing an OP-TEE RPC call. It becomes more complicated when there is incorrect shutdown ordering of the supplicant process vs the OP-TEE client application which can eventually lead to system hang-up waiting for the closure of the client application. Allow the client process waiting in kernel for supplicant response to be killed rather than indefinitely waiting in an unkillable state. Also, a normal uninterruptible wait should not have resulted in the hung-task watchdog getting triggered, but the endless loop would. This fixes issues observed during system reboot/shutdown when supplicant got hung for some reason or gets crashed/killed which lead to client getting hung in an unkillable state. It in turn lead to system being in hung up state requiring hard power off/on to recover.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.12 < 5.4.291) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.235) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.179) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.130) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.80) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.17) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.5) • linux linux kernel 6.14

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References