CVE-2025-37801

spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer()

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: May 8, 2025
Updated: Oct 15, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

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

spi: spi-imx: Add check for spi_imx_setupxfer()

Add check for the return value of spi_imx_setupxfer(). spi_imx->rx and spi_imx->tx function pointer can be NULL when spi_imx_setupxfer() return error, and make NULL pointer dereference.

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 Call trace: 0x0 spi_imx_pio_transfer+0x50/0xd8 spi_imx_transfer_one+0x18c/0x858 spi_transfer_one_message+0x43c/0x790 __spi_pump_transfer_message+0x238/0x5d4 __spi_sync+0x2b0/0x454 spi_write_then_read+0x11c/0x200

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	307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 2fea0d6d7b5d27fbf55512d51851ba0a346ede52Affected 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 2b4479eb462ecb39001b38dfb331fc6028dedac8Affected 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 185d376875ea6fb4256b9dc97ee0b4d2b0fdd399Affected 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 055ef73bb1afc3f783a9a13b496770a781964a07Affected 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 951a04ab3a2db4029debfa48d380ef834b93207eAffected
LinuxLinux	5.19Affected before 5.19Not affected 6.1.136 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.89 through 6.6.Not affected 6.12.26 through 6.12.Not affected 6.14.5 through 6.14.Not affected 6.15 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 2fea0d6d7b5d27fbf55512d51851ba0a346ede52Affected
307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 2b4479eb462ecb39001b38dfb331fc6028dedac8Affected
307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 185d376875ea6fb4256b9dc97ee0b4d2b0fdd399Affected
307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 055ef73bb1afc3f783a9a13b496770a781964a07Affected
307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b to before 951a04ab3a2db4029debfa48d380ef834b93207eAffected

LinuxLinux

5.19Affected
before 5.19Not affected
6.1.136 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.89 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.12.26 through 6.12.*Not affected
6.14.5 through 6.14.*Not affected
6.15 and laterNot affected

References

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