CVE-2025-38538
Published: Aug 16, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: nbpfaxi: Fix memory corruption in probe() The nbpf->chan[] array is allocated earlier in the nbpf_probe() function and it has "num_channels" elements. These three loops iterate one element farther than they should and corrupt memory. The changes to the second loop are more involved. In this case, we're copying data from the irqbuf[] array into the nbpf->chan[] array. If the data in irqbuf[i] is the error IRQ then we skip it, so the iterators are not in sync. I added a check to ensure that we don't go beyond the end of the irqbuf[] array. I'm pretty sure this can't happen, but it seemed harmless to add a check. On the other hand, after the loop has ended there is a check to ensure that the "chan" iterator is where we expect it to be. In the original code we went one element beyond the end of the array so the iterator wasn't in the correct place and it would always return -EINVAL. However, now it will always be in the correct place. I deleted the check since we know the result.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894 - < 84fff8e6f11b9af1407e273995b5257d99ff0cffaffected b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894 - < aec396b4f736f3f8d2c28a9cd2924a4ada57ae87affected b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894 - < 24861ef8b517a309a4225f2793be0cd8fa0bec9eaffected b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894 - < f366b36c5e3ce29c9a3c8eed3d1631908e4fc8bbaffected b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894 - < 4bb016438335ec02b01f96bf1367378c2bfe03e5+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.17unaffected 0 - < 3.17unaffected 5.4.297 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.241 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.190 - <= 5.15.*+5 more versions |
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