{"id":"CVE-2025-21662","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-21662","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T06:14:52.556Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns When cmd_alloc_index(), fails cmd_work_handler() needs to complete ent->slotted before returning early.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Fix variable not being completed when function returns\n\nWhen cmd_alloc_index(), fails cmd_work_handler() needs\nto complete ent->slotted before returning early.\nOtherwise the task which issued the command may hang:\n\n   mlx5_core 0000:01:00.0: cmd_work_handler:877:(pid 3880418): failed to allocate command entry\n   INFO: task kworker/13:2:4055883 blocked for more than 120 seconds.\n         Not tainted 4.19.90-25.44.v2101.ky10.aarch64 #1\n   \"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs\" disables this message.\n   kworker/13:2    D    0 4055883      2 0x00000228\n   Workqueue: events mlx5e_tx_dim_work [mlx5_core]\n   Call trace:\n      __switch_to+0xe8/0x150\n      __schedule+0x2a8/0x9b8\n      schedule+0x2c/0x88\n      schedule_timeout+0x204/0x478\n      wait_for_common+0x154/0x250\n      wait_for_completion+0x28/0x38\n      cmd_exec+0x7a0/0xa00 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_cmd_exec+0x54/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq+0x6c/0x80 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5_core_modify_cq_moderation+0xa0/0xb8 [mlx5_core]\n      mlx5e_tx_dim_work+0x54/0x68 [mlx5_core]\n      process_one_work+0x1b0/0x448\n      worker_thread+0x54/0x468\n      kthread+0x134/0x138\n      ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18","published":"2025-01-21T13:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:43:58.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00204,"percentile":0.10323,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e2909c6bec9048f49d0c8e16887c63b50b14647","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/229cc10284373fbe754e623b7033dca7e7470ec8","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36124081f6ffd9dfaad48830bdf106bb82a9457d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0a2808767ac39f64b1d9a0ff865c255073cf3d4","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21662","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}