CVE-2025-21735

HIGH

Linux Kernel - Out-of-bounds Write in NFC NCI HCI Pipe Creation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFC: nci: Add bounds checking in nci_hci_create_pipe() The "pipe" variable is a u8 which comes from the network. If it's more than 127, then it results in memory corruption in the caller, nci_hci_connect_gate().

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 13.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 4.4.0 - 5.4.291linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.179linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.129linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.235linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.78linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.14linux
Linux/Linux < 4.4
Linux/Linux 4.4
Linux/Linux 5.10.235 - 5.10.*
... and 16 more
Published Feb 27, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026