Record summary

CVE-2025-21846 has a selected CVSS score of 5.5 (medium).

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: acct: perform last write from workqueue In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to trigger NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acc(2) to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs(). A lookup will thus trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs. Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the (strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk. This api should stop to exist though.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

CISA SSVC decision

ExploitationNone
AutomatableNo
Technical impactPartial

CISA Coordinator · SSVC 2.0.3 · Evaluated Oct 1, 2025 · Source: CVE List

Affected products and versions

6
ProductSourceVersion rangeStatus

Default status: unaffected, affected

CVE List1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 8acbf4a88c6a98c8ed00afd1a7d1abcca9b4735eaffected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < b03782ae707cc45e65242c7cddd8e28f1c22cde5affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 5d5b936cfa4b0d5670ca7420ef165a074bc008ebaffected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 5ee8da9bea70dda492d61f075658939af33d8410affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 5c928e14a2ccd99462f2351ead627b58075bb736affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 5a59ced8ffc71973d42c82484a719c8f6ac8f7f7affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < a8136afca090412a36429cb6c2543c714d9c0f84affected
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to < 56d5f3eba3f5de0efdd556de4ef381e109b973a9affected
2.6.12affected
Before 2.6.12unaffected
5.4.291 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
5.10.235 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
Showing 12 of 18 version ranges

SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Browse Siemens / SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Default status: unknown

CVE ListV3.1.6 to < *affected

SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP

Browse Siemens / SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP

Default status: unknown

CVE ListV3.1.6 to < *affected

SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem

Browse Siemens / SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem

Default status: unknown

CVE ListBefore *affected

SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Browse Siemens / SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

Default status: unknown

CVE ListV3.1.6 to < *affected
OSV2.6.12 to < 5.4.291 · Fixed in 5.4.291affected
5.5.0 to < 5.10.235 · Fixed in 5.10.235affected
5.11.0 to < 5.15.179 · Fixed in 5.15.179affected
5.16.0 to < 6.1.130 · Fixed in 6.1.130affected
6.2.0 to < 6.6.80 · Fixed in 6.6.80affected
6.7.0 to < 6.12.17 · Fixed in 6.12.17affected
6.13.0 to < 6.13.5 · Fixed in 6.13.5affected

References

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