CVE-2025-21738
ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Feb 27, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 29, 2024
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: libata-sff: Ensure that we cannot write outside the allocated buffer
reveliofuzzing reported that a SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl with out_len set to 0xd42, SCSI command set to ATA_16 PASS-THROUGH, ATA command set to ATA_NOP, and protocol set to ATA_PROT_PIO, can cause ata_pio_sector() to write outside the allocated buffer, overwriting random memory.
While a ATA device is supposed to abort a ATA_NOP command, there does seem to be a bug either in libata-sff or QEMU, where either this status is not set, or the status is cleared before read by ata_sff_hsm_move(). Anyway, that is most likely a separate bug.
Looking at __atapi_pio_bytes(), it already has a safety check to ensure that __atapi_pio_bytes() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.
Add a similar check to ata_pio_sector(), such that also ata_pio_sector() cannot write outside the allocated buffer.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8f8cf87059ed1905c2a5c72f8b39a4f57b11b4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5e6e3000309359eae2a17117aa6e3c44897bf6c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0dd5aade301a10f4b329fa7454fdcc2518741902
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a17a9944b8d89ef03946121241870ac53ddaf45
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e74e53b34b6dec5a50e1404e2680852ec6768d2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html
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