CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38559
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- 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:
platform/x86/intel/pmt: fix a crashlog NULL pointer access
Usage of the intel_pmt_read() for binary sysfs, requires a pcidev. The
current use of the endpoint value is only valid for telemetry endpoint
usage.
Without the ep, the crashlog usage causes the following NULL pointer
exception:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:intel_pmt_read+0x3b/0x70 [pmt_class]
Code:
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? sysfs_kf_bin_read+0xc0/0xe0
kernfs_fop_read_iter+0xac/0x1a0
vfs_read+0x26d/0x350
ksys_read+0x6b/0xe0
__x64_sys_read+0x1d/0x30
x64_sys_call+0x1bc8/0x1d70
do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x110
Augment struct intel_pmt_entry with a pointer to the pcidev to avoid
the NULL pointer exception.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.42)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.10)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/089d05266b2caf020ac2ae2cd2be78f580268f5d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d53b543b5447478e259c96ca4688393f327c98 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/54d5cd4719c5e87f33d271c9ac2e393147d934f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/860d93bd6a21f08883711196344c353bc3936a2b Patch