CVE-2025-21810

driver core: class: Fix wild pointer dereferences in API class_dev_iter_next()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

driver core: class: Fix wild pointer dereferences in API class_dev_iter_next()

There are a potential wild pointer dereferences issue regarding APIs class_dev_iter_(init|next|exit)(), as explained by below typical usage:

// All members of @iter are wild pointers. struct class_dev_iter iter;

// class_dev_iter_init(@iter, @class, ...) checks parameter @class for // potential class_to_subsys() error, and it returns void type and does // not initialize its output parameter @iter, so caller can not detect // the error and continues to invoke class_dev_iter_next(@iter) even if // @iter still contains wild pointers. class_dev_iter_init(&iter, ...);

// Dereference these wild pointers in @iter here once suffer the error. while (dev = class_dev_iter_next(&iter)) { ... };

// Also dereference these wild pointers here. class_dev_iter_exit(&iter);

Actually, all callers of these APIs have such usage pattern in kernel tree. Fix by: - Initialize output parameter @iter by memset() in class_dev_iter_init() and give callers prompt by pr_crit() for the error. - Check if @iter is valid in class_dev_iter_next().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf to before f4b9bc823b0cfdebfed479c0e87d6939c7562e87Affected
  • 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf to before 1614e75d1a1b63db6421c7a4bf37004720c7376cAffected
  • 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf to before 5c504e9767b947cf7d4e29b811c0c8b3c53242b7Affected
  • 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf to before e128f82f7006991c99a58114f70ef61e937b1ac1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.76 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.13 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.2 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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