CVE-2025-21902

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via UCSI CCI Polling Assertion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: acpi: typec: ucsi: Introduce a ->poll_cci method For the ACPI backend of UCSI the UCSI "registers" are just a memory copy of the register values in an opregion. The ACPI implementation in the BIOS ensures that the opregion contents are synced to the embedded controller and it ensures that the registers (in particular CCI) are synced back to the opregion on notifications. While there is an ACPI call that syncs the actual registers to the opregion there is rarely a need to do this and on some ACPI implementations it actually breaks in various interesting ways. The only reason to force a sync from the embedded controller is to poll CCI while notifications are disabled. Only the ucsi core knows if this is the case and guessing based on the current command is suboptimal, i.e. leading to the following spurious assertion splat: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 76 at drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.c:1388 ucsi_reset_ppm+0x1b4/0x1c0 [typec_ucsi] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 76 Comm: kworker/3:0 Not tainted 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: LENOVO 21D0/LNVNB161216, BIOS J6CN45WW 03/17/2023 Workqueue: events_long ucsi_init_work [typec_ucsi] RIP: 0010:ucsi_reset_ppm+0x1b4/0x1c0 [typec_ucsi] Call Trace: <TASK> ucsi_init_work+0x3c/0xac0 [typec_ucsi] process_one_work+0x179/0x330 worker_thread+0x252/0x390 kthread+0xd2/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Thus introduce a ->poll_cci() method that works like ->read_cci() with an additional forced sync and document that this should be used when polling with notifications disabled. For all other backends that presumably don't have this issue use the same implementation for both methods.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel < 6.12.19linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.12.19 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.5 - 6.12.19
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.13.7 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux c0ca6fd5f6ebde8fc0df8bb5c32629d1284f60d0 - 012b98cdb54c7d47743ee7fc402fa23f2d90529a
Linux/Linux fa48d7e81624efdf398b990a9049e9cd75a5aead - 1aec5c9066965ac0984e385bbc31455ae31cbffc
... and 3 more
Published Apr 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026