vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2025-38395: kernel: regulator: gpio: Fix the out-of-bounds access to drvdata::gpiods
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Jul 25, 2025 | Jul 31, 2025 | Aug 4, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 25, 2025
Added
Jul 31, 2025
Modified
Aug 4, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: gpio: Fix the out-of-bounds access to drvdata::gpiods
drvdata::gpiods is supposed to hold an array of 'gpio_desc' pointers. But
the memory is allocated for only one pointer. This will lead to
out-of-bounds access later in the code if 'config::ngpios' is > 1. So
fix the code to allocate enough memory to hold 'config::ngpios' of GPIO
descriptors.
While at it, also move the check for memory allocation failure to be below
the allocation to make it more readable.
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