CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-23147
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09359e7c8751961937cb5fc50220969b0a4e1058 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b54faa5f47fa7c642179744aeff03f0810dc62e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ba402610843d7d15c7f3966a461deeeaff7fba4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6871a676aa534e8f218279672e0445c725f81026 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd496a44f041da9ef3afe14d1d6193d460424e91 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d83b0c03ef8fbea2f03029a1cc1f5041f0e1d47f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6bba328578feb58c614c11868c259b40484c5fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe4a4fc179b7898055555a11685915473588392e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff9d61db59bb27d16d3f872bff2620d50856b80c Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html Mailing List