Vulnerabilities > CVE-2025-21918 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Linux Kernel
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: typec: ucsi: Fix NULL pointer access Resources should be released only after all threads that utilize them have been destroyed. This commit ensures that resources are not released prematurely by waiting for the associated workqueue to complete before deallocating them.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/079a3e52f3e751bb8f5937195bdf25c5d14fdff0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46fba7be161bb89068958138ea64ec33c0b446d4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/592a0327d026a122e97e8e8bb7c60cbbe7697344
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a735a8a46f6ebf898bbefd96659ca5da798bce0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b13abcb7ddd8d38de769486db5bd917537b32ab1