CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-38142

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-07-03
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: hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) check sensor index in read_string() Prevent a potential invalid memory access when the requested sensor is not found. find_ec_sensor_index() may return a negative value (e.g. -ENOENT), but its result was used without checking, which could lead to undefined behavior when passed to get_sensor_info(). Add a proper check to return -EINVAL if sensor_index is negative. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. [groeck: Return error code returned from find_ec_sensor_index]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.18 < 6.1.142) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.94) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.34) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.3) • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References