CVE-2025-38538

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38538
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38538.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38538
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-16T11:12:30.878Z
Modified
2025-11-27T19:34:25.353255Z
Summary
dmaengine: nbpfaxi: Fix memory corruption in probe()
Details

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 nbpfprobe() function and it has "numchannels" 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.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/ee626f5d79d5817bb21d6f048dc0da4c4e383443/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38538.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
84fff8e6f11b9af1407e273995b5257d99ff0cff
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
aec396b4f736f3f8d2c28a9cd2924a4ada57ae87
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
24861ef8b517a309a4225f2793be0cd8fa0bec9e
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
f366b36c5e3ce29c9a3c8eed3d1631908e4fc8bb
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
4bb016438335ec02b01f96bf1367378c2bfe03e5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
122160289adf8ebf15060f1cbf6265b55a914948
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
d6bbd67ab5de37a74ac85c83c5a26664b62034dd
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b45b262cefd5b8eb2ba88d20e5bd295881293894
Fixed
188c6ba1dd925849c5d94885c8bbdeb0b3dcf510

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.17.0
Fixed
5.4.297
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.241
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.190
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.147
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.100
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.40
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.8