CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-23147

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-05-01
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: i3c: Add NULL pointer check in i3c_master_queue_ibi() The I3C master driver may receive an IBI from a target device that has not been probed yet. In such cases, the master calls `i3c_master_queue_ibi()` to queue an IBI work task, leading to "Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory" and resulting in a kernel panic. Typical IBI handling flow: 1. The I3C master scans target devices and probes their respective drivers. 2. The target device driver calls `i3c_device_request_ibi()` to enable IBI and assigns `dev->ibi = ibi`. 3. The I3C master receives an IBI from the target device and calls `i3c_master_queue_ibi()` to queue the target device driver’s IBI handler task. However, since target device events are asynchronous to the I3C probe sequence, step 3 may occur before step 2, causing `dev->ibi` to be `NULL`, leading to a kernel panic. Add a NULL pointer check in `i3c_master_queue_ibi()` to prevent accessing an uninitialized `dev->ibi`, ensuring stability.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 5.4.293) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.237) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.181) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.135) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.88) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.24) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.12) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.14 < 6.14.3) • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References