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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-21838 json

usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal

published 2025-03-07 20 mo ago modified 2026-11-05 3 d ago also EUVD-2025-7589

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal

device_del() can lead to new work being scheduled in gadget->work workqueue. This is observed, for example, with the dwc3 driver with the following call stack: device_del() gadget_unbind_driver() usb_gadget_disconnect_locked() dwc3_gadget_pullup() dwc3_gadget_soft_disconnect() usb_gadget_set_state() schedule_work(&gadget->work)

Move flush_work() after device_del() to ensure the workqueue is cleaned up.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.130, 6.6.80, 6.12.16, 6.13.4, 6.14
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.133-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.12.16-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21838

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-78.78
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1035.37
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1036.38
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1032.36
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1033.33
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1034.39
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1019.21
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1035.39

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21838

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-coco SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.21.coco15sp6.1
  • kernel-syms-coco SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.21.coco15sp6.1
  • kernel-coco_debug SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.21.coco15sp6.1
  • kernel-source-coco SLE Module for Confidential Computing Technical Preview 15 SP6 6.4.0-15061.21.coco15sp6.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-28.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-28.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-28.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-28.1.21.6

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1SUSE-SU-2025:20260-1SUSE-SU-2025:1180-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-21838 updated cvss 6.0

kernel: usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-295-16 updated cvss 6.0

Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP

  • Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem
    affected: mitigation, no fix available

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

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

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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