CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-22016

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-04-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
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
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dpll: fix xa_alloc_cyclic() error handling In case of returning 1 from xa_alloc_cyclic() (wrapping) ERR_PTR(1) will be returned, which will cause IS_ERR() to be false. Which can lead to dereference not allocated pointer (pin). Fix it by checking if err is lower than zero. This wasn't found in real usecase, only noticed. Credit to Pierre.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.12.21) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.9) • linux linux kernel 6.14

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References