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LIN1025-77 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2025-21976

Created: Apr 27, 2025    Updated: Sep 1, 2025
Resolved Date: Apr 28, 2025
Found In Version: 10.25.33.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 25
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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

fbdev: hyperv_fb: Allow graceful removal of framebuffer

When a Hyper-V framebuffer device is unbind, hyperv_fb driver tries to
release the framebuffer forcefully. If this framebuffer is in use it
produce the following WARN and hence this framebuffer is never released.

   44.111220] WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 1882 at drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c:70 framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40
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[   44.111289] Call Trace:
[   44.111290]  <TASK>
[   44.111291]  ? show_regs+0x6c/0x80
[   44.111295]  ? __warn+0x8d/0x150
[   44.111298]  ? framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40
[   44.111300]  ? report_bug+0x182/0x1b0
[   44.111303]  ? handle_bug+0x6e/0xb0
[   44.111306]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x80
[   44.111308]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
[   44.111311]  ? framebuffer_release+0x2c/0x40
[   44.111313]  ? hvfb_remove+0x86/0xa0 [hyperv_fb]
[   44.111315]  vmbus_remove+0x24/0x40 [hv_vmbus]
[   44.111323]  device_remove+0x40/0x80
[   44.111325]  device_release_driver_internal+0x20b/0x270
[   44.111327]  ? bus_find_device+0xb3/0xf0

Fix this by moving the release of framebuffer and assosiated memory
to fb_ops.fb_destroy function, so that framebuffer framework handles
it gracefully.

While we fix this, also replace manual registrations/unregistration of
framebuffer with devm_register_framebuffer.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2025-21976 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21976)