CVE-2025-21810
Published: Feb 27, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
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().
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf - < f4b9bc823b0cfdebfed479c0e87d6939c7562e87affected 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf - < 1614e75d1a1b63db6421c7a4bf37004720c7376caffected 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf - < 5c504e9767b947cf7d4e29b811c0c8b3c53242b7affected 7b884b7f24b42fa25e92ed724ad82f137610afaf - < e128f82f7006991c99a58114f70ef61e937b1ac1 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.4unaffected 0 - < 6.4unaffected 6.6.76 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.12.13 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.13.2 - <= 6.13.*+1 more versions |
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