CVE-2025-21672Microsoft CVSS 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Microsoft advisory for CVE-2025-21672

Published
September 3, 2025
Last Modified
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CVE-2025-21672 →

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products24

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.104.2-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.112.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.117.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.119.3-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.121.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.126.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.130.1-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.134.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.137.1-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.138.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.139.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.141.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.143.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.144.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.145.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.150.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.96.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.96.2-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.186.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.200.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
  • cbl2 kernel 5.15.202.1-1 on CBL-Mariner 2.0

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2025-21672

EchelonGraph score
5.5 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1]. This is because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held inode lock is not released. Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of returning directly. [dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code from afs_split_string()] [1] WARNING: lock held when returning to user space! 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------ syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! 1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823: #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline] #0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2025-21672, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

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