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CVE-2025-21859

kernel: USB: gadget: f_midi: f_midi_complete to call queue_work

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 12, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

USB: gadget: f_midi: f_midi_complete to call queue_work

When using USB MIDI, a lock is attempted to be acquired twice through a re-entrant call to f_midi_transmit, causing a deadlock.

Fix it by using queue_work() to schedule the inner f_midi_transmit() via a high priority work queue from the completion handler.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-667 · Improper Locking