CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21738
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer
reveliofuzzing reported that a SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl with out_len
set to 0xd42, SCSI command set to ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, ATA command set to
ATA_NOP, and protocol set to ATA_PROT_PIO, can cause ata_pio_sector() to
write outside the allocated buffer, overwriting random memory.
While a ATA device is supposed to abort a ATA_NOP command, there does seem
to be a bug either in libata-sff or QEMU, where either this status is not
set, or the status is cleared before read by ata_sff_hsm_move().
Anyway, that is most likely a separate bug.
Looking at __atapi_pio_bytes(), it already has a safety check to ensure
that __atapi_pio_bytes() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.
Add a similar check to ata_pio_sector(), such that also ata_pio_sector()
cannot write outside the allocated buffer.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.1.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.78)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.3)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a17a9944b8d89ef03946121241870ac53ddaf45 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd5aade301a10f4b329fa7454fdcc2518741902 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e74e53b34b6dec5a50e1404e2680852ec6768d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f8cf87059ed1905c2a5c72f8b39a4f57b11b4c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e6e3000309359eae2a17117aa6e3c44897bf6c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com