vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2025-23155: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

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

net: stmmac: Fix accessing freed irq affinity_hint

In stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi(), a pointer to the stack variable
cpu_mask is passed to irq_set_affinity_hint(). This value is stored in
irq_desc->affinity_hint, but once stmmac_request_irq_multi_msi()
returns, the pointer becomes dangling.

The affinity_hint is exposed via procfs with S_IRUGO permissions,
allowing any unprivileged process to read it. Accessing this stale
pointer can lead to:

- a kernel oops or panic if the referenced memory has been released and
unmapped, or
- leakage of kernel data into userspace if the memory is re-used for
other purposes.

All platforms that use stmmac with PCI MSI (Intel, Loongson, etc) are
affected.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1no-fix-debian-deb-package
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