gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-68167
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpiolib: fix invalid pointer access in debugfs If the memory allocation in gpiolib_seq_start() fails, the s->private field remains uninitialized and is later dereferenced without checking in gpiolib_seq_stop(). Initialize s->private to NULL before calling kzalloc() and check it before dereferencing it.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 < 70180a6031056096c93ed2f47c41803268bdd91c ; affected e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 < 3c91c8f424d3e44c8645ab765a38773e58afb07d ; affected e348544f7994d252427ed3ae637c7081cbb90f66 < 2f6115ad8864cf3f48598f26c74c7c8e5c391919
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.9 ; unaffected 0 < 6.9 ; unaffected 6.12.58 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.17.8 ≤ 6.17.* ; unaffected 6.18 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD