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high 7.5

CVE-2025-21885 json

RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix the page details for the srq created by kernel consumers

published 2025-03-27 19 mo ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also EUVD-2025-8480

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix the page details for the srq created by kernel consumers

While using nvme target with use_srq on, below kernel panic is noticed.

[ 549.698111] bnxt_en 0000:41:00.0 enp65s0np0: FEC autoneg off encoding: Clause 91 RS(544,514) [ 566.393619] Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI .. [ 566.393799] <TASK> [ 566.393807] ? __die_body+0x1a/0x60 [ 566.393823] ? die+0x38/0x60 [ 566.393835] ? do_trap+0xe4/0x110 [ 566.393847] ? bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq+0x1d4/0x580 [bnxt_re] [ 566.393867] ? bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq+0x1d4/0x580 [bnxt_re] [ 566.393881] ? do_error_trap+0x7c/0x120 [ 566.393890] ? bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq+0x1d4/0x580 [bnxt_re] [ 566.393911] ? exc_divide_error+0x34/0x50 [ 566.393923] ? bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq+0x1d4/0x580 [bnxt_re] [ 566.393939] ? asm_exc_divide_error+0x16/0x20 [ 566.393966] ? bnxt_qplib_alloc_init_hwq+0x1d4/0x580 [bnxt_re] [ 566.393997] bnxt_qplib_create_srq+0xc9/0x340 [bnxt_re] [ 566.394040] bnxt_re_create_srq+0x335/0x3b0 [bnxt_re] [ 566.394057] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f [ 566.394068] ? __init_swait_queue_head+0x4a/0x60 [ 566.394090] ib_create_srq_user+0xa7/0x150 [ib_core] [ 566.394147] nvmet_rdma_queue_connect+0x7d0/0xbe0 [nvmet_rdma] [ 566.394174] ? lock_release+0x22c/0x3f0 [ 566.394187] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f

Page size and shift info is set only for the user space SRQs. Set page size and page shift for kernel space SRQs also.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.18, 6.13.6, 6.14
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.12.19-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21885

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-84.84
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1039.41
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1040.42
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1036.40
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1037.37
  • linux-azure Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1038.44
  • linux-gkeop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1023.25
  • linux-raspi Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1039.43

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21885

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-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.3.1
  • kernel-syms-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.3.1
  • kernel-source-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.20.3.1
  • kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1
  • kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1
  • kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1
  • kernel-default SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP7, SLE Module for Legacy 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 +2 more 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1
  • kernel-zfcpdump SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:01967-1SUSE-SU-2025:01951-1SUSE-SU-2025:01919-1SUSE-SU-2025:20192-1SUSE-SU-2025:20270-1SUSE-SU-2025:20190-1

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-2025-21885 updated cvss 5.5

kernel: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix the page details for the srq created by kernel consumers

  • 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
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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
    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 SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
24 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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

Classification

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References

Sources

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