CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21871
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0180cf0373f84fff61b16f8c062553a13dd7cfca Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21234efe2a8474a6d2d01ea9573319de7858ce44 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb4911364c764572e9db4ab900a57689a54e8ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70b0d6b0a199c5a3ee6c72f5e61681ed6f759612 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0a9a948159153be145f9471435695373904ee6d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d61cc1a435e6894bfb0dd3370c6f765d2d12825d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec18520f5edc20a00c34a8c9fdd6507c355e880f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd9d2d6124c293e40797a080adf8a9c237efd8b8 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org