CVE-2025-21995: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/sched: Fix fence reference count leak The last_scheduled fence leaks when an entity is being killed and adding the cleanup callback fails. Decrement the reference count of prev when dma_fence_add_callback() fails, ensuring proper balance. [phasta: add git tag info for stable kernel]

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.2, before 6.6.85 (fixed in 6.6.85); from 6.7, before 6.12.21 (fixed in 6.12.21); from 6.13, before 6.13.9 (fixed in 6.13.9); version 6.14 only

Published 2025-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.