CVE-2025-21996: 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/radeon: fix uninitialized size issue in radeon_vce_cs_parse() On the off chance that command stream passed from userspace via ioctl() call to radeon_vce_cs_parse() is weirdly crafted and first command to execute is to encode (case 0x03000001), the function in question will attempt to call radeon_vce_cs_reloc() with size argument that has not been properly initialized. Specifically, 'size' will point to 'tmp' variable before the latter had a chance to be assigned any value. Play it safe and init 'tmp' with 0, thus ensuring that radeon_vce_cs_reloc() will catch an early error in cases like these. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with static analysis tool SVACE. (cherry picked from commit 2d52de55f9ee7aaee0e09ac443f77855989c6b68)

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.15, before 5.4.292 (fixed in 5.4.292); from 5.5, before 5.10.236 (fixed in 5.10.236); from 5.11, before 5.15.180 (fixed in 5.15.180); from 5.16, before 6.1.132 (fixed in 6.1.132); from 6.2, before 6.6.85 (fixed in 6.6.85); from 6.7, before 6.12.21 (fixed in 6.12.21); …

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