CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38538
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: nbpfaxi: Fix memory corruption in probe()
The nbpf->chan[] array is allocated earlier in the nbpf_probe() function
and it has "num_channels" elements. These three loops iterate one
element farther than they should and corrupt memory.
The changes to the second loop are more involved. In this case, we're
copying data from the irqbuf[] array into the nbpf->chan[] array. If
the data in irqbuf[i] is the error IRQ then we skip it, so the iterators
are not in sync. I added a check to ensure that we don't go beyond the
end of the irqbuf[] array. I'm pretty sure this can't happen, but it
seemed harmless to add a check.
On the other hand, after the loop has ended there is a check to ensure
that the "chan" iterator is where we expect it to be. In the original
code we went one element beyond the end of the array so the iterator
wasn't in the correct place and it would always return -EINVAL. However,
now it will always be in the correct place. I deleted the check since
we know the result.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.147)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.100)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/122160289adf8ebf15060f1cbf6265b55a914948 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/188c6ba1dd925849c5d94885c8bbdeb0b3dcf510 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24861ef8b517a309a4225f2793be0cd8fa0bec9e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bb016438335ec02b01f96bf1367378c2bfe03e5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84fff8e6f11b9af1407e273995b5257d99ff0cff Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aec396b4f736f3f8d2c28a9cd2924a4ada57ae87 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6bbd67ab5de37a74ac85c83c5a26664b62034dd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f366b36c5e3ce29c9a3c8eed3d1631908e4fc8bb Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory