Description

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

nfsd: fix management of listener transports

Currently, when no active threads are running, a root user using nfsdctl
command can try to remove a particular listener from the list of previously
added ones, then start the server by increasing the number of threads,
it leads to the following problem:

[ 158.835354] refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
[ 158.835603] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9145 at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0x160/0x1a0
[ 158.836017] Modules linked in: rpcrdma rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd grace overlay isofs uinput snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 rfkill ip_set nf_tables qrtr sunrpc vfat fat uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops uvc videobuf2_v4l2 videodev videobuf2_common snd_hda_codec_generic mc e1000e snd_hda_intel snd_intel_dspcfg snd_hda_codec snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore sg loop dm_multipath dm_mod nfnetlink vsock_loopback vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vmw_vmci vsock xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce vmwgfx sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sr_mod sha1_ce cdrom nvme drm_client_lib drm_ttm_helper ttm nvme_core drm_kms_helper nvme_auth drm fuse
[ 158.840093] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 9145 Comm: nfsd Kdump: lo...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22024

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.91% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22024
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a84c80515ca8a0cdf6d06f1b6ca721224b08453e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/052a34f093fb940a145493d1438e7abbfe507cdd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f42df0ab2b11ea6b2884bdaf6dbc3be6dde7e82
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d093c90892607be505e801469d6674459e69ab89

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